| In first actual photograph originated in the year | | | | photograph it often dealt with using toxic |
| 1825. Joseph Niepce, who was French, developed | | | | chemicals and could be quite expensive. As |
| the first photograph. The first photographs were | | | | photographs were improved upon one after the |
| of a plate made of pewter, which in using some | | | | other, things begin to become better and less |
| other materials could be used to print pictures | | | | expensive to produce them. |
| with ink. As time progressed he was also | | | | Imagine what it was like for people to be able to |
| responsible for improving on the process. | | | | capture their likeness and the likeness of their |
| Many people who also toyed with photographs | | | | loved ones in a permanent way. It has to have |
| and the process of making them, added to the | | | | been a surreal experience to say the least. |
| improvement of how a photograph was made. In | | | | However, this new invention of taking |
| the beginning, it wasn't actually called photograph | | | | photographs did not exactly catch on directly with |
| but instead heliograph. The actual meaning of | | | | the wealthy. The more elite social status of |
| heliograph is sun drawing as it was a term coined | | | | individuals still had their likeness captured by artist |
| by Niepce for the way he used to develop a | | | | and portrait painters. |
| picture. | | | | As time went by though, the photographs were |
| The process of making a heliograph was a very | | | | exceedingly getting better all the while and |
| long process and took all of eight hours to | | | | monochrome images were starting to offer |
| complete the exposure time. Niepce worked very | | | | something that really no painter of portraits could. |
| hard to try and cut down the exposure time but, | | | | And since then photographs has only improved |
| he was never able to shorten it and took up with | | | | each time someone would try tweaking them or |
| a paiter in Paris by the name of Jacques-Mande | | | | using altogether different methods. This is the |
| Daguerre. Together, they worked trying to find | | | | way of any thing in the world from the beginning |
| an answer to how to shorten the time it took to | | | | of time until present day. they were as we still do |
| make a photograph from start to finish, but | | | | try to always improve upon something to make it |
| Niepce died before they were able to find a way. | | | | better than it way before. |
| Daguerre was able to finally shorten the time it | | | | Much evidence points to a time of only about a |
| took to about half an hour. He was able to do this | | | | decade that Daguerre was able to keep his |
| by using the studies he and Niepce produced | | | | dominant process of making photographs, until |
| when they had earlier on worked together. So, | | | | others started to shadow him using new and |
| actually Daguerre could take the name of father | | | | different processes. And this is the way it was |
| of photography, but, Niepce has to be given | | | | and continues to be until the present day. |
| cudo's for the first actual photograph. | | | | Photographs and how to take them are still being |
| Now, the word photograph actually is Greek | | | | researched and made better all the time, and it |
| derived and is taken from a few different words | | | | will probably continue on just as it always has. |
| with different meanings. In the beginning of the | | | | |