snapsnap1973
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I was thinking today that I know very little about photography really and am "reading up" on it to further my understanding. Well, really that means going back all the way to the very beginnings and then I got to thinking about those "very beginnings".
I imagined that I was back before a camera even existed. I realize in the "old days" or probably very early on when man existed people wanted to record various events for others to see or to simply remember them. In believe that most likely these were in the form of "cave drawings" if I'm not mistaken.
Eventually I think we moved on somehow to sketching and maybe then painting I would think. So these in my opinion would be the very earliest forms of recording events or the "origins of photography" in a way. So really though they're all just different forms of "recording events", which is important to mankind for obvious reasons.
Anyways, I got onto the subject of photography and started imagining, without really doing any prior research, about how someone may have come up with the idea of photography and thought about it. Obviously, drawing, painting, etc. took time and skill to perform, so someone must've been thinking of an easier way to "record events".
So someone must've thought of a mirror and how the mirror produced and image of what we wanted to see. In a way that mirror is recording what we are seeing, but it's not being "saved" in any way for future viewing.
I would think that the best way to record this image on the mirror at first maybe would've been tracing it so that we could get a very rudimentary image. So maybe tracing by hand in the "old days" would've been how it was done. Then someone most likely came up with a way that the image that the mirror was receiving could be "burned" into an element of some kind to produce the image.
Anyways, I'm gonna go read up on the origins of photography right now and check how far off base I am.
LOL
I imagined that I was back before a camera even existed. I realize in the "old days" or probably very early on when man existed people wanted to record various events for others to see or to simply remember them. In believe that most likely these were in the form of "cave drawings" if I'm not mistaken.
Eventually I think we moved on somehow to sketching and maybe then painting I would think. So these in my opinion would be the very earliest forms of recording events or the "origins of photography" in a way. So really though they're all just different forms of "recording events", which is important to mankind for obvious reasons.
Anyways, I got onto the subject of photography and started imagining, without really doing any prior research, about how someone may have come up with the idea of photography and thought about it. Obviously, drawing, painting, etc. took time and skill to perform, so someone must've been thinking of an easier way to "record events".
So someone must've thought of a mirror and how the mirror produced and image of what we wanted to see. In a way that mirror is recording what we are seeing, but it's not being "saved" in any way for future viewing.
I would think that the best way to record this image on the mirror at first maybe would've been tracing it so that we could get a very rudimentary image. So maybe tracing by hand in the "old days" would've been how it was done. Then someone most likely came up with a way that the image that the mirror was receiving could be "burned" into an element of some kind to produce the image.
Anyways, I'm gonna go read up on the origins of photography right now and check how far off base I am.
LOL
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