Early Photographic Inventions

Camera Obsecura

Light enters a whole, hits a wall, and creates an upside down image

Combination Print

An effect that can’t always be captured on a negative

Daguerreotype

A plate that has been exposed by light and mercury creates a photographic image.

Calotype

Made a negative into a positive with silver iodine

Photogenic Drawing

A reverse image on photosensitive paper to make a positive print

The negative

A semi/transparent image that is seen through light

Wet plate

Spreading collodion on a wet metal plate

Caret de Visite

A camera with multiple lenses that make multiple pictures on a negative

Tintype

A negative made on a black iron plate

Constructed image theory

Creating or manipulating a scene in photography

Stereographs

A pair of identical images on a single card that creates a 3d effect

Silver salt

A light sensitive chemical to help capture images

latent Images

An invisible pattern formed on an photosensitive material

Impressionism

A scene focusing on light or color

Canotypes

Blue dye used to create images