Write a post of at least 200 words comparing the daguerreotype that you handled today at the Brooklyn Historical Society and any digital photograph that you have taken this semester. How does the format change the experience of both taking and viewing photographs?
Today our class meet at the Brooklyn Historical Society. We watched two videos, one was about daguerrotypes. Daguerrotype was the first in photography. In comparison to digital photography there are few similarities and a lot of differences.
A digital photograph has many differences in comparison to daguerrotype. For instance, digital photos are much easier to take and produce because they are small and have fast shutter speeds that are adjustable,where as this is not the case with daguerrotype. Digital photos are developed using cmyk ink from a printer and can be in full color or black and white. It can be manipulated through computer software. Although there are many differences between daguerrotype and digital photographs, they are both photographs because they both rely on the same features that produce a photograph which are light, mirrors and shutter speeds. I have a greater respect for photography and I am glad that we are in the digital age.
