My Technology Timeline for my Photojournalism class for American International College and Professor Nordell.

2. All of the technologies and platforms listed start a new era of
photography. They impact not only photography but
photojournalism and photojournalists. Once one was introduced it
changed the way pictures were taken and changed the view points
for photographers. Some literally changed the view points.
The way technology works is that it also has to be an
improvement from the last thing to come out.
Technology builds on itself and never intentionally
takes steps backwards.

4. This was the first form of photography and gave people the ability to capture
moments. This form of photography was mostly used for portraits and
wedding photos. The subjects in the photoshoot would have to stay still for
many minutes anywhere from 6 to 8 minutes. They had to sit still so long
some people wore neck and back braces to take away the pain. This was
explained by Professor Nordell in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4JfnPkgcA&feature=youtu.be It was
sometimes taken out of the family setting and into the war setting but it was
extremely hard to get all the equipment around and find subjects still for that
long
This picture is an image of Roger Fenton on his
“Photographic Van”. He would have to ride this carriage
around battlegrounds just to set up shop and get a picture
of dead bodies of soldiers sitting around because Wet Plate
Photography didn’t have the ablility to take pictures of
moving objects.
Photo by Roger Fenton’s Assistant
Image Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

5. The Wet Plate Collodion Process
Step 1: Clean the plate. I poured the collodion on a piece of 4x5 tin plate (There are a couple of
different ways to do this but I found that pouring quite a bit in the center of the plate and then
moving it to each corner works the best).
Step 2: Silver Nitrate bath. After the collodion is on, it goes into the silver nitrate bath where
the plate sits for 3 minutes and becomes light sensitive. At this time the lights in the darkroom
go off except for the safelights which are either red or amber and at a very low power. Wet plate
collodion has a film speed (ISO) of approximately 5, so this means that it takes quite a bit of light
to affect the plate.
Step 3: Take it to the camera, shoot the photo! Put the plate in an old film holder so that it's
light tight. Now you’re ready to take the image.
Step 4: Developing. Back into the darkroom, take the plate out, and cover the plate in
developer. Rock it gently back and forth for about 10-15 seconds until you start to see your
image appear. Then a gentle water wash until the plate washes off the developer. Put it into the
fixer and develop.
Explained step for step by Josh LeClair
https://fstoppers.com/portraits/step-step-guide-
wet-plate-photography-2540

7. Dry Plate Photography is literally a game changer. Roger Fenton would have
asked for this 20 years earlier. He wouldn't have to ride a van full of equipment
everywhere. But dry plate photos gave photographers the ability to freeze motion.
No longer did they have to have something stay still for 10 minutes they could
catch a bird flying or a person jumping.
These photos were captured by Eadweard
Muybridge and they helped him win a bet that all 4
of the horse’s legs are in the air at the same time.
Thanks to Dry Plate technology he was able to
freeze the horse in action and prove he was right.
Dry Plate Collodion became popular fast and
photographers everywhere were using it.
Photo by Eadweard Muybridge
Image Source:
https://vickielester.com/2014/01/29/eadweard-
muybridge-one-of-the-fathers-of-the-motion-
picture/

9. The Kodak Company changed EVERYTHING! Kodachrome was introduced by
Kodak where you were able to take pictures with color film developing. The
pictures were technically black and white until they were processed and
developed. They were developed with a certain color dye and if stored improperly
the dye would fade but if stored properly the color of the photos would last 100
years according to a TIME article on Kodachrome.
Color gave photographers a brand new outlet for expression of
emotion. It let them capture the beauty of life. We don’t see in
black and whi te so why should our pictures be. Kodachrome was
revolutionary and a major step in photography and
photojournalism.

10. Both Photos by Photographer Steve
McCurry
Image Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/world/ste
ve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/
Image Source:
http://jammytoast.com/great-uncle-
bimbo-remembers-3/

12. SLR Cameras or Single Lens Reflex Cameras gave photographers an idea of what the
photo would like when you were ready to frame it. It gave the photographer a look
through the lens… literally. With a simple mirror and prism system you were able to look
through a viewer and see what the camera was going to capture. This changed
photojouralism because now you were able to create a picture not only just take one.
What I mean by creating a picture and not just taking it is creating a world around
what you arre taking a picture of. Being able to point the camera more to the left
so a person is standing to the right of the photo and a lot of scenery to the left.
This also helped create The Rule of Thirds in photography.
According to photgraphymad.com The rule of thirds is “an essential photography
technique. It can be applied to any subject to improve the composition and balance of your
images.”

13. The tree is placed in the 3rd section while the
first 2 are open for the beautiful sunset and
scenery.
Photo by Andreas Wonisch
Image Source:
http://www.photographymad.com/pages/vi
ew/rule-of-thirds

15. Now we are entering the digital age. The age
we all know and love and are so accustomed
too.
Digital Camera gave photos better quality
because they were made with pixels instead of
film. Also cut out the middle man of developers
and stores that developed film because know
you can plug your camera into a computer and
view your photos that way. Or have the photos
on a cassette tape (early times) or DVD (more
recent) and see them displayed on a TV set.
First Digital Camera
By Kodak and Steve Sasson
Image Source: http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-
first-digital-camera-by-kodak-and-steve-sasson/

17. The Internet became an outlet for photographers and photojournalists to display their art for
everyone to see. The Internet also gave way for every and anyone to be a photojournalist. The
internet has countless websites that hold hosts to different famous photography and
photographers set up their own websites that have galleries of their work. The Internet became an
outlet as well. Photographers that don’t have the newspaper connections or people connections
can gain buzz from the Internet.
Social Media:
The Internet:
Instagram is probably the biggest social network for photography and its main
users aren’t professional photographers, it’s people like you and me. Instagram has
had a huge impact on photojournalism and it had been documented.

18. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/11/01/why-time-magazine-used-instagram-to-
cover-hurricane-sandy/#321077972e21
The link above is to an article that explains why TIME magazine chose to use Instagram to
take their pictures for the story and not your traditional digital cameras. The
photographers were excited to shoot with their iPhones saying it was like a breath of fresh
air just being able to “point and shoot”.
This is the Cover of the issue
that was taken with
Instagram.
Image of TIME Cover
Image Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovi
ci/2012/11/01/why-time-magazine-
used-instagram-to-cover-hurricane-
sandy/#321077972e21

20. To make it simple Smart Phones have turned Photojournalism into something
anyone can do and enjoy and/or get paid from. Photojournalism used to be where
you had to work for a news station to get an assignment but but that is no longer
the case. Thanks to an app called Fresco. The app sends an alert to Fresco users of
an area that has a story needed to be shot and they go to that area and snap photos
of the scene. The news stations then choose which photos they like and purchase
them. Fresco then shares the profits with the person who took the picture.
The app can be fully explained in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Dhw6YCT-U

22. Drones have to be my personal favorite of all the technological advances.
Being able to fly a mini aircraft and take picture from aerial views and fly
around and over things is just the coolest idea.
What is a drone? According to Target Tech a drone is “in a technological context, is an
unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UASes). Essentially, a drone is a flying robot. The
aircrafts may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously through software-
controlled flight plans in their embedded systems working in conjunction with
onboard sensors and GPS.”
This now allows photojournalists to capture never before seen angles of objects. Even if the
object has been shot before, it was never seen from an angle the drone get take.

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The images in the following slides were captured with a drone
and are simply amazing.

26. COOL RIGHT ?!
By: Nyles A. Hightower