MMAPC 001

Digital Photography
 MODULE 1

Orientation/Brief
History of Photography

Jerwin Gilbero
2
 Orientation/Brief
History of Photography
Outline of Topics
• Getting to know you
• Activities
• Course Overview
• Course Requirements
• Importance of the Course in one’s career
• Brief History of Photography
Getting to know you
Activities
Course Overview
Description:
This course discusses the history of photography, and how the
innovation of
photography progresses through time. Also, this course allows
students to understand the role
of Photography plays in commercialism, documentation, activism and
social movements. It
also presents the aesthetic prinples and technical aspects of digital
photography (e.g. camera,
composition, lighting) which aim to develop quality pixel-base
photography. It introduces
students to creative and efficient uses of current tools and
technologies such as digital
darkroom computer programs to enhance images for various
multimedia applications.
Course Requirements
 • Importance of the Course in
one’s career
• Gain Knowledge
• Enhance your skills
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic
• Boost your confidence for success
• Grow your social network
History of Photography
Photography
Photography
- is derived from the Greek words photos (“light”) and
graphein (“to draw”)
- Sir John F.W Herschel in 1893
Camera Obscura
-developed out of the simple, lens-lens ‘pinhole
camera’
- the latin camera, “room”
- obscura, “ dark”.
Vermeer
-used a camera obscura for his paintings.
Photography
Nicephore Niepce
- French Inventor
- First permanent photograph was an image in
1826
Daguerreotypes
-experimented with silver compounds
-silver and chalk mixture darkens when exposed to
light.
Photography
The Civil War in the United States
(1861-1865) was the first war
to be thoroughly record by
photography
As industrialization came to define western life in
19th century, industry employed photography to
portray its successes and strengths
Robert Howlett took pictures of the British steamship
Great Eastern, the largest vessel of its day.
Psychologists studied photographs of mental patients
n an attempt to visually discern their disorders.

Photographers recorded the features of criminals,

not only as means of identification, but also an effort
to identify physical characteristics, which
criminologists then believed might correspond with
criminal behaviour.
George Eastman
-used of photographic film
-paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in
1889.
Kodak - simple box camera with a fixed focus lens
and single shutter speed.
Motion Pictures
-Lumiere brothers of France introduced to the world
in 1895.
-celebrity
-culture
-advertising
-entertainment
Picture Magazines
-New visual culture
-Photomechanical reproduction

National Geographic magazine

-first publication to use colour photography
Digital Photography
- Kodak scientist invented first megapixel sensor
- 1.4 million pixels
- 5x7-inch digital photo quality print