Timeline of Events In Photography

1826

The first permanent image was created by Joseph nicephore niepce. He used a camera obscura to create the image of his country house and the exposure took eight hours to create the image.

1839

First image of a person by the painter chemist Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerra he left his camera obscura in the window of his apartment. Moving objects do not show up because they didn’t stay still long enough, however one unknowing man stopped to shine his shoe stayed still long enough to be captured.

1847

First photographs of war in the Mexican- American war. Charles J Betts offers to photograph the dead and wounded however the officially recorded photo of war was in 1855-56.

1858

First bird’s eye view image taking by Felix Tournachon combined his interests in aeronautics and photography by floating above Paris tethered to an air balloon to take this image.

1861

First colour image taken by James Clerk Maxwell He did this by taking three images and filtering them through a red green and blue to create a multi coloured image.

1878

First image of action taken by an English photographer by taking 12 images almost instantaneous therefore capturing the horse galloping.

1909

First image of North Pole Robert E. Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, become the first people to reach, and photograph, the North Pole. Creating an amazing moment in history come to life.

1926

First colour underwater Photo William Longley and Charles Martin use an Auto chrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and make the first undersea colour photographs.

1940

First high speed image taken by Harold Edgerton taken with his newly invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, freezing on film the rapid movements of nature that elude the eye.

1946

First image taken from space. By johns Hopkins he did this by strapping a camera that took images every second and shot it into space. Thankfully when the camera fell back towards earth the steel cassette managed to keep the film unharmed.

1960

Ocean Eye invented to help underwater Photography by Bates LittleHales the new housing that was created allowed a wider shot with wider lenses and allowed better pictures taken without the water distorting the image

1962

First full colour Image!!!!!!!!

1991

First Digital camera released by Kodak for commercial use. It came out and extremely high prices and was only truly worth the money if you were a professional photographer.

2006

First Digital trap this consisted of a wireless strobes and a digital SLR Camera and a infrared remote camera trap.