early photography
Long exposure times
Early photography refers to the period from the medium's invention in the 1830s through roughly the 1880s, encompassing processes like daguerreotypes, calotypes, and wet plate collodion.
The term appears in discussions of photographic history and technique: The museum's early photography collection includes tintypes and ambrotypes.
Early photographs required long exposure times, limiting subjects to posed portraits and still scenes.
- tintypePhotograph on metal sheet
- tin plateThin coated metal sheet
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- darkroomFilm processing chamber
- collodionNitrocellulose in solvent
glass plate · photogravure · cyanotype · Louis Daguerre · camera obscura · wet plate · long exposure · printing · image · exposure · negative · camera · tripod · portrait · portrait studio · Victorian · sepia · sepia tone