On the 23rd of March, 1841, an enterprising patent speculator and coal merchant from Blackfriars, Richard Beard, opened the first professional portrait studio in England (and probably in Europe). After the announcement of Daguerre’s invention in 1839, like Claudette, Beard…
Aerial perspective is a term banded about by photographers and artists, but very often misunderstood. It does not mean perspective as in, a scene from up in the air, a picture taken from an aeroplane or hot air balloon. Aerial…
Camera and camera lens cleaning is a necessary part of being a photographer, it makes sense to understand what works and what might damage your equipment before you invest mega money into gear and then try to clean it with…
Britain’s first professional photographer – the first man to seize on the commercial implications of the daguerreotype – was a Frenchman – Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867). It was Claudet who solved the problem of making portraits by reducing the…