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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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Professional photography

Annealed polyethylene naphthalate (A-PEN)

Photography; Professional photography

A polyester material used as the base on Advanced Photo System film.

Cyan

Photography; Professional photography

Blue-green subtractive primary colour which absorbs red and transmits blue-green.

Instant picture camera

Photography; Professional photography

Camera, usually with simple controls, producing a finished photographic print within minutes of the film being exposed, (e.g. Polaroid cameras and materials).

Plane

Photography; Professional photography

Imaginary straight line on which image points may lie or which passes at right angles through a set of points perpendicular to the optical axis.

Transfer processes

Photography; Professional photography

Methods of transferring a photographic image from one surface to another.

Instamatic camera

Photography; Professional photography

Compact camera popular in the 1960s and 70s with very simple controls, taking 126 film and yielding a 28 x28 mm negative.

Pincushion distortion

Photography; Professional photography

Lens aberration causing parallel, straight lines at the edge of the image to curve toward the lens axis.

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