Photography: The Four Types Of Photography

Photography comes from the Greek words meaning draw or write with light. It is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. Light can be reflected from a subject and form a picture on a light-sensitive material. After photography was invented, it became more advanced over a long period of time. Images were taken from the human body, ocean, and even space. Since photography is continuously being upgraded there are different categories for picture taking. There are four types of photography: portrait, nature, news, and amateur. There are also two areas of photography still and motion. Photography has been in the air since the B.C.’s.
It all started when Mo Di, a chinese philosopher, discovered in 400 B.C. that light reflects from an object and passing through a …show more content…
Archer, a British photographer, introduced the wet-plate process also called the wet-collodion process. This process dramastically reduced exposure time and improved quality greatly. Although the wet-collodion process required a darkroom it was a nice improvement. But when Richard L. Maddox, a British physician, invented the dry-plate process in 1871. This process made photography facile with no requirement of a darkroom. In between all this the first aerial photo was taken by a French photographer/ balloonist named Nadar. The picture was taken from an air balloon and was a view of Paris.
By the 1880’s there were some radical changes to photography. People could take pictures while holding their camera in their hands. In 1888 George Eastman, an American dry-plate manufacturer, created the Kodak box camera. The Kodak was a miracle with all it’s features. For starters, the camera was handheld. It was also lightweight, inexpensive, and easy to operate. Kodak’s slogan was “You press the button, we do the rest”. This slogan was a way to show how simple the Kodak was. People took pictures and then brought them to a professional who would then develop them for