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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

Pigment processes

Photography; Professional photography

Making a positive print by using the property of bichromated colloids by changing their physical characteristics with exposed light. Gum bichromate is a pigmented process.

Anti-fogging agent

Photography; Professional photography

Constituent of a developer that inhibits or reduces fogging during development.

Cubism

Photography; Professional photography

Early twentieth century European art movement characterised by the rendering of forms as simplified planes, lines and geometric shapes.

Infrared

Photography; Professional photography

Rays that occur beyond the red end of the electro-magnetic spectrum and are invisible to the human eye. They can be recorded on specially sensitised films, producing images in black & white or color.

Tone line process

Photography; Professional photography

Technique used to reproduce a photographic image so that it resembles a pen and ink drawing.

Pinacryptol

Photography; Professional photography

Yellow and green dye powders which are used in desensitising solutions.

Toners

Photography; Professional photography

Used to change the colour of the photographic print by chemical baths. Through the system of bleaching and toning, the black metallic silver image is converted to a dye image.

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