Moments in Photography That Led to Today
This photo isn’t amazing, but one of the reasons why I like it is because I captured a street scene of some majestic Roman architecture. Something rather amazing about this scene is that of all the people standing around listening to the musician, none of them is making a photo or filming him with their cell phones.
It’s a rare scene that maybe could have been from 20 years ago. And this makes me think of how with everyone having a camera with them all the time, it’s easy to overlook the major historic moments in photographic history. And I think that a result of everyone having a camera with them all the time is leading to a society that takes for granted what a photo can do for us.
I’ll explain this opinion throughout this post as I talk about the major historic moments in photography. The goal of this post is so that you, a photography student, can understand better why your camera operates in the way that it does.
Camera Obscura
The earliest version of a camera is called a camera obscura, which in Latin literally means dark room. It was literally a dark room that had a small hole in one of the walls. The light passing…
