Daguerreotype vs. Modern Photo.

When visiting the Brooklyn historical museum we examined one of the first photograhic types Daguerreotype. A Daguerrotype a photograph etched onto a silver copper plate named a Sheffield plate. The plate was heated and the foil was layed down onto the plate, which has a mirror effect. These plates were expensive to own, and often only the rich were able to own one. They were in cased in a wooden frame with a glass to protect the copper plate. The boxes were craved with detailed images. Photography now is much different it is digital almost everyone can own and afford it. A photograph today can be manipulated and fixed to make it look the way you would like, unlike the Daguerrotypes which were originals. The Daguerrotype had a reflective image because of the copper plate. Photography prints today have a dull or glossy effect. Daguerrotype size was  6-1/2″ x 8-1/2″, most photographic images today can vary in a wide range of sizes. A daguerreotype was produced one at a time, the amount of time that a studio session would take and would cost is more. Modern day photography many prints can be made at a fast speed, and cheap price. The advancement in photography allows us to not only have portrait style, but outside our own enviroment and explore more styles.