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The Natural Approach A natural approach has proven to be the best child portraiture method for starters. Your child sitting on a rose petal, in the clouds, with fairy wings on their back, it isn't really how you will remember your child in 20 or 30 years.  

It IS fun, however, to bring this kind of photography to people's attention on the child's wedding day! So do not dismiss this style, but save it for a specialist sitting where you can give it 100% attention for the duration.  The best approach is the natural one, where you will show the child or children in their element.

Still use props and toys, but try to understand and get to know the child/children's nature and capture it. This is how parents and family will remember their little ones in years to come. Good child portraiture will spark off the most romantic nostalgia for years!

History Of Photographic Film

While the knowledge of child portraiture history is of course by no means essential for success, most child portraiture photographers should have sensed some curiosity as to the scientific fundamentals of the art, and have wished to know more of the equipment, which they use. Also, the reactions to which those materials will undergo when exposed to certain light, and then treated with the proper chemical baths to obtain the finished child portraiture result.

• The history of photographic films dates back to 1889. Cellulose nitrate was used for this. 
• Nitrate film encouraged the production of rolls of film. This led to the development of the first ever 35mm wide film. 35mm film was manufactured for cameras using this very technology in 1920s.
• The twin lens reflex camera was developed in 1929 using medium format roll film. The film measured 6cm wide and was backed with paper. The paper backing made it easy to handle in daylight.
• Triacetate film was used till the 1970s since it was more stable and fireproof. 
• Polyester polymers were introduced in the 1960s for gelatin base films.

History Of The Flashbulb

Before flashbulbs were invented photographers used flashlight powder. Miethe and Gaedicke used lycopodium powder in 1887 in Germany as flashlight powder. The Austrian inventor Vierkotter is credited with creating the modern flashbulb, as we know it today.

A magnesium-coated wire was used in an evacuated glass sphere. Later the magnesium-coated wire was discarded for aluminum foil in oxygen.

Ostermeier had the honor of selling the first-ever patented commercial flashbulb in 1930 – the Vacublitz. General electric followed with the more famous Sashalite.

History Of Polaroid Photos

Edwin Land is credited with the invention of instant photography. He developed a single step method by which consumers could click their photographs and develop and print them too.

The Polaroid camera did everything and was first made available to the public in November, 1948. The Automatic 100 Land Polaroid Camera was launched in 1960 and the Polaroid Swinger in 1965. The Swinger cost less than $20 and sparked a revolution in child portraiture.

The Polaroid Corporation was also involved in a lawsuit with the Kodak Corporation in 1976. Kodak was accused of infringing on Polaroid’s instant photography patents. The courts ruled in favor of Polaroid and Kodak was out of the instant photography market in 1985!

More Facts

Disposable cameras were introduced in 1986 by Fuji. They became a huge hit with tourists. Though these were called disposable cameras they were in actuality recyclable cameras. Wratten is credited with the invention of many photographic plates and filters. His achievements include the noodling process in 1878, the first panchromatic plates in 1906 and the extremely popular Wratten filters.