What are the main differences and similarities between portraits in the early days of photography and portraits today?
Back in 1827 Jospesh Nicephore
made the first photography image. Before cameras
were used to capture images, images were captured in paintings. Since it took
many skills and time to paint portraits only high classed people with enough
money most had portraits made. It takes many time and step to compete a
photograph you would need to use sash as a sliver plates and also iodine fumes.
Once all these elements were placed in the light you would be able to start
your process of your picture.
In my own opinion the difference
between
portraits then and now would be the picture quality, the color, texture and the
details. Most pictures were in black and white in the earlier stages verses now
where our pictures are in high definition quality, as the generation grows
older our skills and materials to capture pictures have been upgraded. In the earlier
days you had only one film to use on a picture you didn’t have different
settings like landscape, focus, exposure, delete even a memory card. One thing
that hasn’t changed is the passion people express in pictures.
Who was the photographer and who was the subject of photographs in the past and today?
During the earlier
days only a few people were considered as a photographer like artist and
craftsmen they were the a few people who
had enough money and skill to have a
camera in there possession.
If people like lawyers,
doctor and people who wanted family portrait had to pay a lot of money to have
their portrait done. Now in modern days anybody who has a camera and the
passion for photography can be called a photographer, once you have the passion
to capture the moments your set. Nowadays picture are shown and expressed in
many different ways through newspapers, magazines, blogs, books and even the
internet.
What was the impact of technology on the portraits in the past and today?
In the earlier period if you wanted to have a portrait of you captured you would have to hire a painter of someone who had a camera, and only a few people had cameras in their possession, so painters were more popular to hire. I think the development of the technology has made a big impact and enhanced the way we capture pictures in this generation. We are able to do so much with the technology nowadays. We are able to capture and edit our pictures also delete and resize them, change the color even the landscape. All these features can be done on software's or even on the camera its self!
SOURCE!
http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography
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