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27th May 2012, 04:08 PM
Tahu kah agan2 dan aganwati kalo tanggal 19 Agustus adalah hari fotografi sedunia?
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What's World Photography Day?
World Photography Day is all about celebrating photography and remembering how special a photograph can be.
Today, we take our photographs for granted. But next time you're flicking though photos from your last holiday, remember that there was once a time when photography didn't exist. A time when those precious moments couldn't be captured, uploaded and shared.
On August 19th, celebrate photography and share your world with the world!
Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source
http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/08/louis_daguerre_400px.jpg
Louis Daguerre (above) and Isidore Niepce were granted pensions by the French Parliament, allowing them to make their photographic process available to the public.
1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit.
Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nic�phore Niepce created a rough image using silver salts and a camera obscura, or "dark box," in 1816. The image faded away quickly.
Another decade of work led to the first permanent photographic image, when Niepce fixed a shot of his courtyard onto a pewter plate. The exposure took eight hours in bright sunlight. Niepce continued researching in hopes of making the process faster and more practical.
Daguerre was a successful commercial artist hoping to increase the realism of his giant diorama paintings, some of them 70 feet long by 45 feet high. When using a camera obscura to sketch the outlines (or cartoons) for his paintings, he thought it would be better to create images directly with the camera. He began experimenting.
Daguerre's optician told him about Niepce's work. Daguerre and Niepce began a correspondence that turned into a partnership in 1829. Niepce died in 1833, and his son Isidore labored on. But it was Daguerre's advances with silver-plated copper sheets, iodine and mercury that cut exposure time down to minutes and created positive rather than negative images.
Daguerre was unable to sell his process by subscription, but it caught the interest of Fran�ois Arago, perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. It was under the auspices of the academy that Daguerre first displayed his daguerreotypes to the public on Jan. 9, 1839. They created a sensation.
Arago used the buzz to lobby the French Parliament to grant pensions to Daguerre and Isidore Niepce, so they could make all the steps of the new process public and France would "then nobly give to the whole world this discovery which could contribute so much to the progress of art and science."
Parliament agreed: Daguerre got 6,000 francs (about $30,000 in today's money) per year and Niepce 4,000 francs per year. With a flurry of advance publicity, Daguerre and Arago made the technical details public on August 19. They also described Niepce's earlier processes, heliography and the physautotype, but presented the daguerreotype alone as having a future.
And what a future! Within days, opticians and chemists in Paris sold out of the supplies needed to make cameras and plates. Improvements to the process followed within weeks. Daguerre's instruction manual was translated into a dozen languages within months.
No one wanted to have a portrait painted; everyone wanted a daguerreotype. Studios opened all over Paris. "Daguerreotypomania" spread from Paris to the rest of France, then across the continent, across the channel to England and across the Atlantic to America.
Daguerre did more research, but not to much effect, as many innovators surpassed him. He died in 1851. Another decade and the daguerrotype would be largely supplanted by the albumen print, which made images on paper instead of metal.
Source: Daguerreian Society, others
dari Flickr
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What's World Photography Day about?
World Photography Day?
Many people that have mentioned that they�ve never heard of World Photography Day. Why is that? World Photography Day wasn�t �created� by a big brand as a marketing tool. Rather, it�s a day where photographers had started to come together to celebrate photography, just because they could. Any excuse to throw a party right?
Slowly, groups around the world have started to get on board with the idea of World Photography Day and you will find traces of World Photography Day being celebrated over the last 20 years or so. Each year, World Photography Day has gained momentum and this year, we�re hoping to bring photographers together once again with an even larger audience.
Why August 19th?
World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift �Free to the World.�
Another photographic processes, the Calotype, was also invented in 1839 by William Fox Talbot (it was announced in 1841). Together, the invention of both the Daguerreotype and Calotype mark 1839 as the year that photography was invented.
Take a photo of your day on August 19th and share it here on Flickr. Make sure you tag it worldphotographyday.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2778692088_3d7f1e6fba.jpg
Kepada semua temen2 khususnya anak2 dari forum fotografi dan pecinta fotografi, selamat hari fotografi sedunia! Semoga dunia fotografi di Indonesia semakin maju dan semakin baik :handshake:
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What's World Photography Day?
World Photography Day is all about celebrating photography and remembering how special a photograph can be.
Today, we take our photographs for granted. But next time you're flicking though photos from your last holiday, remember that there was once a time when photography didn't exist. A time when those precious moments couldn't be captured, uploaded and shared.
On August 19th, celebrate photography and share your world with the world!
Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source
http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/08/louis_daguerre_400px.jpg
Louis Daguerre (above) and Isidore Niepce were granted pensions by the French Parliament, allowing them to make their photographic process available to the public.
1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit.
Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nic�phore Niepce created a rough image using silver salts and a camera obscura, or "dark box," in 1816. The image faded away quickly.
Another decade of work led to the first permanent photographic image, when Niepce fixed a shot of his courtyard onto a pewter plate. The exposure took eight hours in bright sunlight. Niepce continued researching in hopes of making the process faster and more practical.
Daguerre was a successful commercial artist hoping to increase the realism of his giant diorama paintings, some of them 70 feet long by 45 feet high. When using a camera obscura to sketch the outlines (or cartoons) for his paintings, he thought it would be better to create images directly with the camera. He began experimenting.
Daguerre's optician told him about Niepce's work. Daguerre and Niepce began a correspondence that turned into a partnership in 1829. Niepce died in 1833, and his son Isidore labored on. But it was Daguerre's advances with silver-plated copper sheets, iodine and mercury that cut exposure time down to minutes and created positive rather than negative images.
Daguerre was unable to sell his process by subscription, but it caught the interest of Fran�ois Arago, perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. It was under the auspices of the academy that Daguerre first displayed his daguerreotypes to the public on Jan. 9, 1839. They created a sensation.
Arago used the buzz to lobby the French Parliament to grant pensions to Daguerre and Isidore Niepce, so they could make all the steps of the new process public and France would "then nobly give to the whole world this discovery which could contribute so much to the progress of art and science."
Parliament agreed: Daguerre got 6,000 francs (about $30,000 in today's money) per year and Niepce 4,000 francs per year. With a flurry of advance publicity, Daguerre and Arago made the technical details public on August 19. They also described Niepce's earlier processes, heliography and the physautotype, but presented the daguerreotype alone as having a future.
And what a future! Within days, opticians and chemists in Paris sold out of the supplies needed to make cameras and plates. Improvements to the process followed within weeks. Daguerre's instruction manual was translated into a dozen languages within months.
No one wanted to have a portrait painted; everyone wanted a daguerreotype. Studios opened all over Paris. "Daguerreotypomania" spread from Paris to the rest of France, then across the continent, across the channel to England and across the Atlantic to America.
Daguerre did more research, but not to much effect, as many innovators surpassed him. He died in 1851. Another decade and the daguerrotype would be largely supplanted by the albumen print, which made images on paper instead of metal.
Source: Daguerreian Society, others
dari Flickr
[quote]
What's World Photography Day about?
World Photography Day?
Many people that have mentioned that they�ve never heard of World Photography Day. Why is that? World Photography Day wasn�t �created� by a big brand as a marketing tool. Rather, it�s a day where photographers had started to come together to celebrate photography, just because they could. Any excuse to throw a party right?
Slowly, groups around the world have started to get on board with the idea of World Photography Day and you will find traces of World Photography Day being celebrated over the last 20 years or so. Each year, World Photography Day has gained momentum and this year, we�re hoping to bring photographers together once again with an even larger audience.
Why August 19th?
World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift �Free to the World.�
Another photographic processes, the Calotype, was also invented in 1839 by William Fox Talbot (it was announced in 1841). Together, the invention of both the Daguerreotype and Calotype mark 1839 as the year that photography was invented.
Take a photo of your day on August 19th and share it here on Flickr. Make sure you tag it worldphotographyday.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2778692088_3d7f1e6fba.jpg
Kepada semua temen2 khususnya anak2 dari forum fotografi dan pecinta fotografi, selamat hari fotografi sedunia! Semoga dunia fotografi di Indonesia semakin maju dan semakin baik :handshake:
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