PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is expensive

Equipment

Photopaper - metals ...

* Photopaper & film - Silver (Ag)

* Tone prints - Gold (Au) - gold toning (gold chloride)

* Alternative photog. prints - Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd) - Platinum plates & Palladium plates

Paper coated in solution, put large format negative = photographic print

Ag + NO(3) = Silver Nitrate (AgNO3)

+ Chlorine = Silver chloride (Fox Talbott)

+ Bromine = Silver Bromide (photopaper & film)

+ Iodine = Silver Iodide (Daguerre)

Hit by light = sensitivity speck/photosites = form images

Digital sensors are what captures the image

Layers

Emulsion

Support layer

Opaque (paper support) or Transparent (cellulose)

Digital photography
Analog processing

Digital processing

* Analog Digital converter (AD converter)

Microprocessor - translates image into visual form

- this is where filters work (mobile phones cams to high-end medium format cams)

Computer processor - post-production