History of Photography
November 16, 2012 - 6:40 pm (Piers Dillon Scott, CO-editor on The Sociable)
Piers Dillon Scott, CO-editor of The Sociable, share the history of photography using an info-graphic to present how photography came about and that what is has become over the years. Title of the article is
"The history of photography from the Daguerreotype to Instagram",
What is Daguerreotype?
Dictionary.com, define it as
2. a picture made by this process.
3. to photograph by this process.
Basically what i means is that in the 1839, photograph which now we can snap and share instantly, was done in a way that involves complicated chemical and process to come out with a photograph a like silver surfacesensitized with iodine and then developed by exposing it to mercury vapor, then comes your photo. Everything is going to change, because now with Instagram everyone, regardless of professional or amateur, people can snap professional like photos and videos and share it to the world. More and more apps to help people become creative professionals by using these apps technology has introduced to.
Co-founder Kevin Systrom Introduces Video on Instagram—June 20th, 2013 from Instagram on Vimeo.
"One of the most amazing this about us humans is the ability to create tools to remember, and we've been doing this through out history, it started of with language, books eventually leads to photographs, to take a moment to record it forever in time, because we know life may be short or long, but we may never get that moment back", Kevin Systrom. So the to freeze time, so that people can view it later or in the future to remember that particular moment, to embrace what their going through or been through.Combining science and technology nowadays, Instagram has create something that everyone can use, to share their moments in their life's which they don't want to miss and to connect that with their own community. Instagram has also critically affect the people in the creative industry such as Singers and actors. Below are few examples of celebrities using Instagram to connect to their fans. Unlike other social network, like facebook Instagram provide people with a little more perspective to the world their living in, different people from different country coming together, connected though Instagram and sharing what's going on with their daily lifes. Instagram indeed has connected the world like no other, people now can know or see what's happening on the other side of the world, through individuals instead of media like television or radio, where media they somethings can be deceiving, but with Instagram, things are posted instantly to the web and share to the rest of the world. Not just that, Kevin Systrom also shares that, they has a number of 16 billion photo shared on Instagram, and 130 million people are using Instagram after the 2 and a half year since Instagram started, that a huge amount of number, with modern technology, with cameras integrated to smartphones and android used by modern days people, they tend to take more photos compared to the older generations. Not a Belieber but just wanna show how overwhelming the response was from Justin Bieber's fans, Justin who posted his first Instagram video got 1 million likes on Instagram.
In the video, Kevin Systrom also introduce us to the new features of Instagram, which is Cinema, but before that they introduce us to Instagram Video, using the same features used in Instagram, now it has this new feature of recording 15 seconds of short clip which, Kevin quote" Not too short, not too long but just the right about of time for people to record a moment or in the video shows a short clip of different scenes of coffee making process to the finishing of the final choosing the Latte picture as the "Cover frame" from the recorded video frame. To give people the power to edit and to pick for themselves what they want to show to their friends about this particular video, to show the final finished produced, or the process as the "Cover frame", in a way this has enable people, normal individuals to have a taste of what is it like to shot a video, using tools like Instagram and to connect it to the world.
So what does Instagram do?
From the book by Joseph Linaschke "Getting the Most from Instagram", we will critically analyst why and how Instagram became so popular. In the book, it mention of using the iPhone camera can bring people to have new perceptive on how they take pictures or things that is happening in their daily life's. The book also shows how people can start to take pictures like professionals by taking perspective shots instead of just shooting the object, just because we want to see the object or for the sake of shooting the object. There are 13 custom filters made for Instagram which is effects that people can apply after snapping a photo. For some people this has becomes a tool for them to journal their daily lives, and for professionals this tools has enable them to share a little bit more about themselves to the world, but still not effecting their ability to product professional works.
Source link:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Daguerreotype?&o=100074&s=t
http://sociable.co/mobile/instagram-hits-150-million-uploads-in-less-than-one-year/
http://books.google.com.my/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zI3Km4v6kqQC&oi=fnd&pg=PT2&dq=instagram&ots=pVNgwJh-3q&sig=UqDr_ukejiEZXo6bH5WlJ4gcCf8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=instagram&f=false
Image source:
http://sociable.co/meme/infographic-the-history-of-photography-from-the-daguerreotype-to-instagram/
http://mashable.com/2013/06/22/bieber-instagram-video/
http://www.popcrunch.com/category/selena-gomez/
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