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Professional photography
Professional photography is the occupation of taking pictures and selling them freelance or as part of a contract usually with a publication.
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Galvanography
Photography; Professional photography
Technique of electroplating a gelatin relief image created photographically to produce a photomechanical printing plate.
Local control
Photography; Professional photography
Method of controlling the final quality of a print by increasing or decreasing the exposure given to localised areas of the print by selective masking.
Reducing agent
Photography; Professional photography
Chemical in a developing solution which converts exposed silver halides to black metallic silver.
Wide area af
Photography; Professional photography
Means the autofocus detection area is wider than normal. Making it easier to photograph moving subjects.
Lippman process
Photography; Professional photography
Early colour process invented by Professor Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921). Light first passed through an almost transparent emulsion layer and was then reflected back by a layer of mercury. The ...
Red eye
Photography; Professional photography
Effect encountered when light from a flash unit travels parallel to the lens axis during exposure.
Wide-angle lens
Photography; Professional photography
Is a lens with wide covering power. It has a focal length which is less than the diagonal of the film format with which it is being used.
