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How Many Images Do We Capture Every Two Minutes?
This is almost one of those photography facts that you wish you didn’t know. But once you know it, you can never unknow it. Every two minutes, we snap more pictures than the whole of humanity did in the 1800s.
Only a few million images were taken in the 80 years leading up to the first commercial camera. In 1999, Kodak reported that we had taken approximately 80 billion pictures.
The estimate is that we share 730 billion images a year on Facebook alone. Thanks for all the food images and selfies, guys.
A close up of a person looking at 8 instant camera photos resting on a bed
The Left Side of Our Face Looks Better in Photos
Apparently, the left side of our faces looks better in photos than the right side. A study conducted by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schrillo from Wake Forest University confirms this.
Their study shows that the left side of our face exhibits a greater intensity of emotion. Because of this, we perceive it as being more attractive.A portrait of a female model posing against a blue wall
The First Negative was Created by …
Photography went through many technological advances before it reached the first film negative. These included the Camera Obscura and the Daguerreotype.
It was none other than William Henry Fox Talbot who created the first negative. It became known as a salted Calotype. He mixed silver iodide and a developing agent to create the negative. The developing agent was a mixture of gallic acid and silver nitrate.
His negative made reprinting positive images easy and quick through contact printing.
This event occurred in 1839, but he didn’t announce it until 1841. This is part of the reason why Fox gained the Rumford medal of the Royal Society a few years later.A close up of photography film negatives
The Inventor of Photography Was Better Known for…
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the creator of the first recorded image. He is, however, better known for his other inventions, propellers and boats.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce also invented the first internal combustion engine, called the Pyréolophore, with his brother in 1807.
Why People Never Smiled in Old Photos
Old photographs were taken with huge large format cameras. Because the technology wasn’t as advanced, an image would take hours to expose correctly.
The subjects didn’t smile because they had to stay still for hours for one photo. Taking a photo often involved the use of a head brace for support. Understandably, smiling for hours was an impossible feat.
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