Professional photography

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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Colour compensating (CC) philtre

Photography; Professional photography

CC philtres are designed primarily for introducing or correcting colour bias at the camera exposure stage.

Flash cube

Photography; Professional photography

Obsolete bulb containing four small flash bulbs built into a single unit.

Mordant

Photography; Professional photography

Is a colourless dye absorbing substance used in some forms of toning. The silver image is converted into a mordant then soaked in dye.

Silhouette

Photography; Professional photography

Photographic image in which the subject is seen as a solid black shape against a light background.

Ambrotype

Photography; Professional photography

Mid-19th century photographic process introduced in 1851-52 by Frederick Scott Archer and Peter Fry. It used weak collodion negatives which were bleached and backed by a black background which ...

Cooke triplet

Photography; Professional photography

One of the most important lenses in lens history, designed by H.D. Taylor in 1893. It consists of three basic elements and has a maximum aperture of 16.3. It is the basic design that most normal ...

Photography

Photography; Professional photography

Literally writing or drawing with light (from the Greek words photos meaning light and graphos, writing). First suggested by Sir John Herschel to William Fox Talbot in 1839.