How really does a camera work

In a nutshell i have enclosed description on how cameras work: The basic technology that makes all of this possible is fairly simple. A still film camera is made of three basic elements: an optical element (the lens), a chemical element (the film) and a mechanical element (the camera body itself). As we'll see, the only trick to photography is calibrating and combining these elements in such a way that they record a crisp, recognizable image.

The beauty of photography

Photography lets us capture moments in time and preserve them for years to come!

All time famous photographers

Berenice Abbott: Known for: photographs of New York, portraits of notable artists including James Joyce, promoting work of French photographer Eugene Atget.

Annie Leibovitz:Annie's first widely published photo was the January 12, 1971 cover image for Rolling Stone. Her career has centered around celebrity portraiture for various magazines and special projects.

Joe Rosenthal:Rosenthal is best known for his photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. The flag raising over Iwo Jima was captured on February 23, 1945 and depicts 4 marines lifting a large flag onto a shell-strown hilltop.

Irving Penn: Irving Penn was one of a group of photographers in the 30s and 40s (including Richard Avedon) that studied under Alexey Brodovitch and followed a very stark style of photography. Subjects were usually placed in front of a plain background with very basic lighting. This style was influential in the shaping of modern fashion photography.

Ansel Adams: Ansel Adams is very likely the single most recognized photographer by name. A combination of timing and location led to his fame. In the early nineteenth century travel took much longer than today so Adams’ sweeping views of the stunning Western United States landscapes were unprecedented views to the vast majority of Americans.

Helmut Newton: Helmut Newton is a famous photographer who primarily specialized in fashion photography early on but later became well known for his portraits of nude women.

Eadweard Muybridge: Eadweard Muybridge is one of the earliest and most popular photographers in the entire world. He had very revolutionary work for his time period, and much of his work is still well-known even to those who may not really follow the history of photography much. His pioneering came in the form of using still photos

Dorothea Lange: Dorthea Lange has taken one of the most recognizable and influential photographs of all time, called the Migrant Mother. She is well known for this photograph single-handidly and is almost always used to depict the Great Depression era in the history books

"Only a handful of photographers ever gain fame for their work although the images themselves may be recognized around the world"

Quote taken from famous and influential photographers website.

how cameras first started before they are anything which they are today!

Article on one of the firts palaroid cameras

more development on cameras

First disposable camera

Nikon camera developed over 30years ago

The world best selling palaroid camera

First ever camcorder

The arts of photography but how did it all begin...

In early 16th century, artists trace scenes by using camera obscura and camera lucida.  These early cameras did not fix an image in time; they only projected what passed through an opening in the wall of a darkened room onto a surface. In effect, the entire room was turned into a large pinhole camera. Indeed, the phrase camera obscura literally means "darkened room," and it is after these darkened rooms that all modern cameras have been named.


Nicéphore Niépce

The first photograph is considered to be an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. It was produced with a camera, and required an eight hour exposure in bright sunshine. However this process turned out to be a dead end and Niépce began experimenting with silver compounds based on a Johann Heinrich Schultz discovery in 1724 that a silver and chalk mixture darkens when exposed to light.


Niépce, in Chalon-sur-Saône, and the artist Louis Daguerre, in Paris, refined the existing silver process in a partnership. In 1833 Niépce died of a stroke, leaving his notes to Daguerre.


Louis Daguerre
While he had no scientific background, Daguerre made two pivotal contributions to the process.


He discovered that by exposing the silver first to iodine vapour, before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, a latent image could be formed and made visible. By then bathing the plate in a salt bath the image could be fixed.


In 1839 Daguerre announced that he had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the Daguerreotype. A similar process is still used today for Polaroids. The French government bought the patent and immediately made it public domain.


William Fox Talbot
Across the English Channel, William Fox Talbot had earlier discovered another means to fix a silver process image but had kept it secret. After reading about Daguerre's invention Talbot refined his process, so that it might be fast enough to take photographs of people as Daguerre had done and by 1840 he had invented the calotype process.


He coated paper sheets with silver chloride to create an intermediate negative image. Unlike a daguerreotype a calotype negative could be used to reproduce positive prints, like most chemical films do today. Talbot patented this process which greatly limited its adoption.


He spent the rest of his life in lawsuits defending the patent until he gave up on photography altogether. But later this process was refined by George Eastman and is today the basic technology used by chemical film cameras.


Frederick Scott Archer

In the darkroom in 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the collodion process. It was the process used by Lewis Carroll.




Slovene Janez Puhar

Slovene Janez Puhar invented the technical procedure for making photographs on glass in 1841. The invention was recognized on July 17th 1852 in Paris by the Académie Nationale Agricole, Manufacturière et Commerciale.




George Eastman
In 1884 George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, developed dry gel on paper, or film, to replace the photographic plate so that a photographer no longer needed to carry boxes of plates and toxic chemicals around. In July of 1888 Eastman's Kodak camera went on the market with the slogan "You press the button, we do the rest". Photography became available for the mass-market in 1901 with the introduction of Kodak Brownie.


Since then color film has become standard, as well as automatic focus and automatic exposure. Digital recording of images is becoming increasingly common, as digital cameras allow instant previews on LCD screens and the resolution of top of the range models has exceeded high quality 35mm film while lower resolution models have become affordable.

One of the first camera's invented

research on previous shoots done for the BHF

The British Heart foundation who are they and what do they actaully do...

Almost 50 Years of Pioneering, Life-Saving Progress

The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease.
Their aim was to raise money to help fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease.
Since then there have been vital major advances in the treatment and prevention of heart disease.
In 1986, the BHF become more involved in public education, and in 1990 moved into rehabilitation.
Heart surgery is now commonplace and thousands of people are healthier and live longer thanks to new drugs.
The BHF plays a vital role in funding pioneering heart research in the UK, which in turn has an huge impact around the world.
Many of today's new drugs and treatments might never have been possible without the existence of the BHF. To continue this life-saving work for future generations we need your support.
Check out the timeline date links below for the story of heart health advances involving the BHF since the 1960s

"Our Mission is to play a leading role in the fight against disease of the heart and circulation, so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death.
In our strategy report, 'Beating heart disease together' (published in 2007), we stated that":

Within a generation, we aim to:

• reduce cardiovascular disease in the UK to one of the lowest levels in Europe.

Within a decade, we aim to:

• half the number of people under 75 who die from cardiovascular disease,
• make sure at least two thirds of people under 75 survive a heart attack,
• reduce heart-related deaths in all UK local authority areas to the current level in South East England or below,
• reverse the increase in childhood obesity.

Project tiltle: Expose the heart of Fashion

So we've just been given our new brief it’s a photography brief, the aims of the project is to introduce you to photography, to recognise photography as a promotional tool and to develop your creativity and analytical skills.

Out of the two options of the two competitions I have chosen to opt for the first one, the British Heart Foundation: Red for Heart. So basically the task for this brief it to produce a series of black and white or colour images including red somewhere in each of the image based on the following competition brief: “The theme of the competition is red for heart. The only rule of the competition is that red must be incorporated somewhere into your photograph. You don’t necessarily have to feature hearts, but think about hearts as a theme and what it means to you. As we are celebrating our 50th birthday in 2010 the picture could capture an element of celebration. Beyond this, the brief is open to interpretation and we encourage creativity.