Darkroom vs. Digital Photography

1733 Words4 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: The birth of photography

Darkroom vs. Digital Photography

A hot topic among photographers is the ongoing debate of darkroom and digital photography. There are never ending lists of pros and cons for each method of photography, each fuelling the long lasting arguments. For a more thorough understanding of the two alternatives, a basic overview of how film cameras operate in comparison to digital cameras is given. Secondly, the pros and cons of darkroom photography are listed and examined. Thirdly the pros and cons of digital photography are also listed and depicted in an unbiased fashion. It’s time to knock these two favoured mediums off their high pedestals and analyze them on even grounds.

Film cameras have been in the process of developing since 1664-1666 when Sir Issac Newton discovered light is composed of different colours and in 1724 when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure. It was in 1814 when Joseph Neipce achieved the world’s first photographic image after eight hours of light exposure. As technology developed through the years, more advancement has been made to film photography thus gradually changing the way film cameras operate. When a camera records an image, it’s recording the visible light (or flash) reflecting off the objects in the camera’s view. The reflect light causes a chemical change in photographic film (chemical records. Light has its own color spectrum, the electro-magnetic spectrum where the primary colours are RGB (Red Green Blue). Packets of energy traveling via light are called photons. The amount of energy determines the length of the wave lengths of the colours, which in turn determines the colour. The energy in photons creates a chemical change in the photographic detectors th...

... middle of paper ...

...his, pictures shot with lager exposure periods of time add random white dots all over the image. Digital cameras have come a long way since they were first developed, and continue to improve at a rate that is stunning the world.

The debates of which method is better will not likely be silenced soon because people have their own preferences, but both ways are respected greatly in photography. Though digital photography is currently in a brighter spotlight, both are respected and because of technology both are becoming more advanced with every day. Both methods have their flaws, and rewards. It depends on the photographer which options would they like to have to determine which method of photography they will use. Photography is always advancing, and both film and digital photography have a long way to go before one of the two silences the ongoing debates.

Show More
Related

  • Technicolor Research Topic Report: Sound and Image.

    2168 Words  | 5 Pages

    There first invention produced was the Technicolor System 1 Additive Color, which I’m sorry to say flopped massively due to the unfortunate screening of The Gulf Between in 1917 which only a few frames remain of this film today. This was the first public premier of the technology and was disastrous. The film was captured through two separate filters red and green and the light through those two filters was captured on a single reel of film, when processed this negative had red and green information captured on a black and white reel, when this was processed the reel was placed into a projector and then threw red and green filters. To project the image an adjustable prism that had to manually lined up by the projectionist as two separate images formed on the projection screen this did not work as planned as the projectionist failed to line up the images correctly.

    Read More

  • How Did Thomas Wedgewood Made The Louis Daguerre

    206 Words  | 1 Pages

    Question 2: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre made the Louis Daguerre in 1838, which was made with a camera obscura but had no color in it. The Daguerreotype manuals went around the world a year later and begin studies on the process. Historical it was the first photograph and changed the art world view on images because it was just so perfectly designed.

    Read More

  • Daguerreotype-Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

    1379 Words  | 3 Pages

    Prior to the invention of the daguerreotype, the Camera Obscura was the main optical instrument that was used to project images onto paper. The Camera Obscura was a device in the shape of a box that allowed light, which was being reflected from the images that the user was intending to capture, to enter through an opening at one end of the box to form an image on a surface and an artist would then trace the image to form the most accurate impression of an image at that peri...

    Read More

  • How to Take Professional Quality Pictures with a Digital SLR Camera

    1590 Words  | 4 Pages

    A former point-and-shoot photographer can take professional quality pictures with a digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera by learning about and experimenting with its complex operations. There are many advantages to making the transition from a point-and-shoot digital camera to a digital SLR camera. These include capturing images “more quickly, more flexibly, and with more creativity” (Busch, Digital 9). Furthermore, taking photos with a digital SLR camera reduces the amount of time that otherwise would be spent editing with photo-editing software to improve the quality of the photos.

    Read More

  • Uncle Tungsten Essay

    934 Words  | 2 Pages

    In “Uncle Tungsten”, one of the first major topics and most relevant during Oliver’s time was the making of the colored photograph. In the teaching of color, it was stated that superimposing plates of ordinary black and white along with the three primary colors being red, green, and violet and then projecting them, explodes the pictures into full color. This demonstrates the fact that every color visible to the human eye can be constructed to these three primary colors because the eye has three equivalently tuned color receptors. Also, in reflection of the discovering

    Read More

  • Unknown Chemical Compounds

    742 Words  | 2 Pages

    The purpose of this lab was to analyse how light and color is created inside an atom in order to deduce what an unknown chemical compound was. We did two different experiments in order to examine how light is created and changed. In one, we looked at how chemical compounds affected a flame’s color, and to determine what the unknown salt contains. In the other lab, we looked at how atoms create light, and how it is displayed on the elements individual spectral line.

    Read More

  • Influence of Photography on Reality

    1210 Words  | 3 Pages

    A young man peers into a screen attached to a box that projects its image through a small lens. It is the 17th century and the artist Johannes Vermeer is preparing to paint another image based on a reflection of reality though a box. Today billions of people around the world peer into boxes with projected light and receive a different reality with images created through photography that has affected the world in many ways. Photography has become more and more accessible to the general population. For much of its technological existence, photographing was only a luxury for the wealthy. Eventually the common man could afford cameras and take pictures although these usually remained confined to a small family or friend group. It was not until the last decade or so that everyone could attain cameras, with most having them on their phones, and shared them among a vast social network creating a profile based on the everyday image. As photography has improved during the last two centuries, it has affected the way we perceive reality.

    Read More

  • Essay On Cinema And Cinema

    1414 Words  | 3 Pages

    According to Paolo Cherchi Usai: “Moving image preservation will be redefined as the science of gradual loss and the art of coping with the consequences, very much like a physician who has accepted the inevitability of death even while he fights for the patient’s life” (Death 24x Second, Laura Mulvey, p17). Furthermore, due to the improving of technology, there is always something been replace by another. Such as analogue camera has been replaced by digital camera, telephone has been replaced by smartphone, and television has been replaced by computer. “… the digital, as an abstract information system, made a break with analogue imagery, finally sweeping away the relation with reality, which had, by and large, dominated the photographic tradition…” (Death 24x a Second, Laura Mulvey, p18). But fortunately, photography didn’t been replace by film, that is maybe due to a reason of photography has always had its own complex engagement with time and movement which is different with film (Lecture note,

    Read More

  • Film: A Dying Art or an Evolving Franchise?

    1459 Words  | 3 Pages

    Digital film allows for the image to be easily edited in post production, such as adding visual effects or changing the color of a shot. Though this is effective for many motion pictures trying to achieve this outcome, it does n...

    Read More

  • nolan

    918 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...still best because it provides the filmmaker the most range, captures the most depth of image and works best as a tool to tell a story. Nolan said that moving to digital creates a risk of “devaluing what we do as filmmakers”('Dark Knight Rises').

    Read More

  • Louis Daguerre: Capturing The Invention That Changed Photography

    1488 Words  | 3 Pages

    Photography is a part of almost everyone's everyday life whether it is through a smartphone, laptop, or professional camera. Before the late 1800s, though, even a simple picture was not possible. Although many people worked hard and put their ideas and inventions of new cameras in the world, Louis Daguerre is among one of the most important. Michael Hart, in his book, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, ranks Daguerre as the 47th most influential person in the world. This ranking is appropriate because of the many ways his invention influenced today's world. His technique was practical and widely used in the 1800s. Although his methods are different

    Read More

  • Horror Film: The Aesthetics Of Lighting

    1016 Words  | 3 Pages

    The aesthetics of lighting, were established hundreds of years ago by painters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Goya. The use of light is an essential component in Horror and again like colour elicits emotions in the viewer and can also effect space and time. It is important to note that you cannot have colour without light and light without colour. Early film makers in the 1890s used sunlight and filmed outside, various diffusers and reflectors were used to change light, then studios where then built, Allen and Kuhn (2015). There are many types of light used by Cinematographers on a film set such as Maher (2015) states HMI, Tungsten, LED, and Fluorescent and also natural light is still used.

    Read More

  • The Evolution of Photography

    1074 Words  | 3 Pages

    The invention of the camera and its many makeovers has changed the art of photography. The idea for photography came around in 1814 when Joseph Niépce wanted an image of his son before he left for war. He succeeded in making the first camera in 1827, but the camera needed at least eight hours to produce one picture. Parisian Louis Daguerre invented the next kind of camera in 1839, who worked with Niépce for four years. His camera only took fifteen to thirty minutes to produce a picture.

    Read More

  • Cameras and Photography

    5009 Words  | 11 Pages

    What do you consider art? Paintings, sculptures, drawings, or maybe something else. I know, when I think of art, I think of photography. Photography Is used for business, science, manufacturing, art, recreational purposes, mass communication, and more. Photography is using light to do amazing things, and some people think of photography as a story that just needs to be told. Ansel Adams probably believed this. He said, “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Photography has a long interesting history, like the fact that the word photography is made up of two greek words, photos meaning ‘light’ and graphein which is ‘to draw’ ! Photography also has some complicated techniques to get a hang of taking good photos. Have you heard of the rule of thirds? Or do you know how a camera works? Well, that will all be explained. Maybe, by the end you will take up photography too. This essay will explore the history and types of cameras and the basic rules for taking photographs.

    Read More

  • The History of Photography

    1831 Words  | 4 Pages

    In today’s world, photography has become a part of our daily lives. People take photographs of food, c...

    Read More

More about Darkroom vs. Digital Photography

Open Document