Figure 1.--The shorter exposure times and reduced cost made outdoor photograsphy commerviable for the first time. This opened up enormous possibilities. |
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The Ambrotype was a major step toward modern photography. The lower cost a shorter exposure lengths meant that photographers could move outdoors. We see outdoors portrits. Most Ambros were studio portraits, but we see some outdoor portraits. This opened up enormous possibilities. You begin see enterprising photograsphers taking photographs of major events. The first war to be photograsphed was the Crimean War (1854-56). And we have large mumbers of photographs of the American Civil War (1861-65). These images were made in glass plates. This is not to say that photography outside the studio was easy, but it was possible and thus beginning in the 1850s we begin to have photographs of major historical events.
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