Photography is a word subsequent from the Greek words photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”). The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a process of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material. In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscure. Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscure for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they called the example for the contemporary photograph, by leasing light draw the picture. Niepce placed a picture onto a metal plate covered in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. The obscure areas of the picture infertile light, but the whiter areas allowed light to respond with the chemicals on the plate. When Niepce placed the metal plate in a in the black, gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared. However, Niepce's photograph required eight hours of light disclosure to create and after appearing would soon fade away. But Fellow Frenchman, Louis Daguerre was also experimenting to discover a way to capture an image, but it would take him another dozen years before Daguerre was able to reduce disclosure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing afterwards. He was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he created a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to advance the process Niepce had developed.
In 1839 after several years of testing and Niepce's death, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself – The daguerreotype. Daguerre's process permanent the images onto a sheet of silver-plated copper. He polished the silver and coated it in iodine, creating a surface that was sensitive to light. Then, he put the plate in a camera and exposed it for a few minutes. After the image was painted by light, Daguerre...