Digital Photography Research Paper

Digital-less photography is an old way to take pictures that is not much used anymore. There are many different ways to produce the actual image when it is digital. In this paper I want to describe how dark rooms work, different thing that can happen to the picture during the process, the change in from digital-less to digital photography, this history of photography, and things you need for a darkroom.

A darkroom is literally a dark room that people make photographs. When making a darkroom the room has to be light tight, meaning absolutely no outside light is let in. If making a darkroom in a house a basement, corner or bathroom would work. There are multiple ways to make a room light tights: weather stripping, duct tape, and wooden strips

The daguerreotype process was when the image was exposed onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapor. Henry Fox Talbot developed a calotype in 1841. His process used a silver iodide coated paper instead of halide. Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard invented the albumen print in 1850. This was this first commercially used method of producing a photographic print on a piece of paper from a negative. James Ambrose Cutting patented the ambrotype in 1854. This was a process that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet collodion process. Frederick Scott Archer created the wet collodion process o few years earlier. Cutting used it as a positive not a negative. Adolphe-Alexandre Martin invented the ferrotype in 1853. This process is the same as the ambrotype expect the photograph is created on a sheet of metal instead of a sheet of glass. Dr. Richard L. Maddox in 1871 invented the dry plate process. This was the first economically successful durable medium. By 1879 the first dry plate factory had been established. Richard H. Norris in 1856 invented the wet plate process. The wet plate was also a successful process but had its drawback. It had to be used in a certain amount of time, its slow photographic speed, and numerous chemicals required.