Introduction to studio portraiture

Louis Daguerre France (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851)

Louis Daguerre | French painter and physicist | Britannica

“Louis Daguerre, in full Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, (born November 18, 1787, Cormeilles, near Paris, France—died July 10, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne), French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype.”

“The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. … The daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp.”

Henry William Fox-Talbot (1800 – 1877)

Fox Talbot went on to develop the three primary elements of photography: developing, fixing, and printing. He made the revolutionary discovery that images did not need extremely long exposure times to create a visible image. however when using short exposure times Fox-Talbot could not see the image therefore he discovered how to make the image visible using chemicals. He called this the ‘calotype’ and patented the process in 1841.

Calotype Camera | Science Museum Group Collection

Lighting

There are many types of lighting in studio photography. some of these include: key light, Fill Light, Hair Light, Separation Light, Kicker, Background light, Camera Mounted Flash, Rembrandt Lighting, Loop Lighting, Butterfly Lighting.