History of Photography

A Brief History of Photography

Multiple Choice

What is camera obscura?

• Box with a hole in which light is trapped and the image is formed

• A dark camera

• Box with a hole in which light passes through reflecting the image upside down

• A camera in which the image becomes obscured

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What is Silver Nitrate?

• Substance that reacts to light to reveal an image, but won't last long

• Chemical used to produce mirrors

• Medicine used to treat wounds

• Chemical used to clean cameras

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What is a Heliograph?

• A type of graph used in photography

• A type of font similar to calligraphy

• A substance used to develop images using sunlight that won't fade away, but it takes a long time to process

• Substance used to develop photos but will fade away after a while

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Daguerreotype

• Developing method available to big companies

• Developing method that became available to the public

• Developing method that was really famous for a while

• Developing method developed by Kodak

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the word PHOTOGRAPHY?

• Light-Drawing

• Light-Letters

• Light-Images

• Image-Drawing

Poll

Choose your first favorite assignment so far (more option on the next slide)

• Leading Lines

• Depth of Field

• Rule of Thirds

• Rule of Odds

Poll

Choose your second favorite assignment so far

• Macro

• Texture

• Spot Color

• Black and White

Multiple Choice

How long was the exposure time in the earlier photographs?

• 2 minutes

• 3 minutes

• 4 minutes

• 5 minutes

Multiple Choice

What did gelatin plates do to photography?

• Made it tasty

• Made it possible to take more pictures

• It allowed cameras to be smaller and photos to be faster

• It was a invention that did not work

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Kodak created the first film camera, but how was the file developed?

• It had to be sent back to the factory

• It could be developed at home

• It could be developed at a local Walmart

• It could only de developed a any photo developing studio

Multiple Choice

When was the first compact, lightweight camera invented?

• 1927

• 1925

• 1930

• 1935