2. Basic Photography Community & Corporate Education – Danville Area Community College Instructor – Leslie A. Woodrum On the web at www.woodrum-media.comwww.woodrum-media.com E-mail at lesw@woodrum-media.comlesw@woodrum-media.com Class web site – www.woodrum-media.com/classes/basicphotowww.woodrum-media.com/classes/basicphoto

3. 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”

4. Class Grading  Attendance  Completion of Assignments  Class Participation

5. About the Instructor  First Cameras – First jobs  Education College Workshops Awards – Exhibits – Publications

6. About the Instructor – cont.  Photography Background College Photography Industrial Photography Studio – Photo Lab  Photo Lab Production Experience Wholesale Photo Labs Commercial Photo Labs

7. History of Photography

8. 16 th & 17 th Century  Quest for recording an image

9. 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.

10. William Henry Fox Talbot - 1834  Developed first process that utilized a paper negative.

11. Louis Daguerre - 1837  Developed a direct process that produced a detailed image called “ The Daguerreotype. ”  No negatives, direct image.  Processed in mercury fumes.

12. Frederick Scott Archer - 1851  Invents the “ Wet Plate ” Process  Excellent Detail  Enables production of quality reprints

13. Photography goes Public – 1855-57  1855-57 – Creation of ambrotype and tintype process.  Brings photography to the common man

14. Mathew Brady – 1861-65  First Documentary Photography

15. Document the Wild West - 1870  William Henry Jackson and Timothy O ’ Sullivan

16. Stopping Action - 1877  Eadweard Muybridge

17. George Eastman – 1880, 1888  Brings photography to the masses

18. Alfred Stieglitz - 1902  Organizes “ Photo Secessionist ” group  Camerawork  American Place

19. First Color Process - 1907  The Autochrome produced by the Lumiere Brothers

20. First 35mm Camera - 1924  Leica – produced by German Microscope manufacturer Leitz

21. Flash Photography - 1931  Harold “ Doc ” Edgerton of MIT

22. Technicolor - 1932  Movie Camera that shoots three separate black and white negatives

23. The F/64 Group  Dedicated to “ Straight Photographic Thought and Production. ”  Weston, Cunningham & Adams

24. Farm Security Administration - 1935  Government Supports Documentary Photography  Lange, Evans & Rothstein

25. 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

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

27. 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

28. 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)

29. Photography designed for the consumer – 1963-1978  Instamatic Cameras - 126 - 110 - Disk  Polaroid Instant Film

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

31. 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?