Daguerreotypes were invented by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, and was discovered in 1839. A daguerreotype looks very detailed and sharp. It is made from a silvered copper plate that has a mirror-like surface, and is very fragile. The typical daguerreotype kit includes; a tripod, a box for treatment with mercury vapor, boxes for fuming with iodine and bromine, a soft buckskin pad for buffing the plates, and a box of unexposed silver copper plates.
Cyanotypes were invented by Sir John Hershel and introduced in 1842. The cyanotype process is made up of two solutions: potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate are mixed with water separately. Then the two solutions are blended together in equal parts. Place the solutions on a blank canvas and dried in a dark room, then you rinse the image in water. Then the image will become a blue negative.
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