Basic PhotographyCommunity & Corporate Education – Danville Area Community College

Instructor – Leslie A. WoodrumOn the web at www.woodrum-media.comE-mail at lesw@woodrum-media.comClass web site – www.woodrum-media.com/classes/basicphoto

Class Outline History of Photography Basic Camera Functions Film, Filters and Digital Composition Lighting, Natural and Flash Studio Lighting and camera

accessories Mounting and storing images Introduction to traditional

darkroom and film processing and a “digital darkroom”

Class Grading Attendance Completion of

Assignments Class Participation

About the Instructor First Cameras – First

jobs Education

College Workshops Awards – Exhibits –

Publications

About the Instructor – cont. Photography

Background College Photography Industrial Photography Studio – Photo Lab

Photo Lab Production Experience Wholesale Photo Labs Commercial Photo

Labs

History of Photography

16th & 17th Century

Quest for recording an image

First Photographic Image - 1826 Joseph Nicéphore

Niépce produced on a polished

pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative.

Partnered with Louis Daguerre to experiment with silver nitrate processes.

William Henry Fox Talbot - 1834 Developed first

process that utilized a paper negative.

Louis Daguerre - 1837 Developed a direct

process that produced a detailed image called “The Daguerreotype.”

No negatives, direct image.

Processed in mercury fumes.

Frederick Scott Archer - 1851 Invents the “Wet Plate”

Process Excellent Detail Enables production of

quality reprints

Photography goes Public – 1855-57 1855-57 – Creation of

ambrotype and tintype process.

Brings photography to the common man

Mathew Brady – 1861-65 First Documentary

Photography

Document the Wild West - 1870 William Henry Jackson

and Timothy O’Sullivan

Stopping Action - 1877

Eadweard Muybridge

George Eastman – 1880, 1888 Brings photography to

the masses

Alfred Stieglitz - 1902 Organizes “Photo

Secessionist” group Camerawork American Place

First Color Process - 1907 The Autochrome

produced by the Lumiere Brothers

First 35mm Camera - 1924 Leica – produced by

German Microscope manufacturer Leitz

Flash Photography - 1931

Harold “Doc” Edgerton of MIT

Technicolor - 1932 Movie Camera

that shoots three separate black and white negatives

The F/64 Group Dedicated to “Straight

Photographic Thought and Production.”

Weston, Cunningham & Adams

Farm Security Administration - 1935 Government Supports

Documentary Photography

Lange, Evans& Rothstein

Commercially Available Color Photography - 1936 Kodachrome (Discontinued

production 2009) Many Processes soon

follow Slides – E-1, E-3, E-4 &

E-6 Color Negatives, 1942 –

C-22 & C-41 Color Prints – EP-1, EP-2, RA-4, Type R, Cibachrome

Death of Kodachrome – December 30, 2010

Photography becomes news and art World War II Life Photographers Joe Rosenthal

George Land - 1948 Invents Polaroid

Process Polaroid Discontinued

the Manufacturing of Polaroid Film – September, 2008

Restarted manufacturing summer 2010 – ID cameras and dual Digital/Polaroid

First S L R Camera - 1949 Contax produces first

camera Nikon becomes industry

standard Pentax develops TTL

metering (1964) Leica develops Auto Focus

SLR camera (1978)

Photography designed for the consumer – 1963-1978 Instamatic Cameras

- 126

- 110

- Disk Polaroid Instant

Film

The First Days of Digital Photography – May, 1957 Now celebrating 58 years No Cameras First image was 176 pixels

wide

Digital Today Kodak develops first digital

camera in 1975 Kodak and Nikon produce first

commercial camera – 1991 Sony produced the first Mavica

Camera in 1996 Nikon produces first SLR in

1999 Canon markets first SLR under

$1,000 in 2003 Kodak ceases production of film

cameras – 2004 (files bankruptcy 2012)

THE FUTURE?