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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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Integral tri-pack
Photography; Professional photography
Three emulsions, usually of different character, coated on the same film base. The system is used mainly on colour materials and also on some special purpose black & white materials.
Antiscreen plates
Photography; Professional photography
Photographic plates containing dyes that reduce the blue sensitivity. Used unfiltered, they can give results similar to those obtained with yellow filtered orthochromatic plates.
Cut film
Photography; Professional photography
Negative film available in flat sheets. The most common sizes are 4x5, and 8x10 inches.
Daguerreotype
Photography; Professional photography
First practical and commercial photographic process, introduced by Louis Daguerre in 1839. The sensitive material comprised silver iodide, deposited on a polished silver plated copper base. A ...
Integrating
Photography; Professional photography
Term used to describe a method of arriving at an exposure setting by taking an average of the light readings from the bright areas and the and the shadow areas of the subject.
Aperture ring
Photography; Professional photography
Ring located on the outside of the lens usually behind the focusing ring, which is linked mechanically to the diaphragm to control the size of the aperture.
Darkcloth
Photography; Professional photography
Cloth made of dark material placed over the photographers head and the camera back to facilitate the viewing of images on the ground glass screen of sheet film cameras.
