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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Brightness range

Photography; Professional photography

Subjective term describing the difference in illumination between the darkest and lightest areas of the subject.

Exit pupil

Photography; Professional photography

Image of the iris diaphragm formed on the back surface of a compound lens by the elements behind the aperture.

Is the size of the image relative to the size of the subject used to produce it. It is an expression of the ratio of the subject-lens distance to the image-lens distance. When object distance = image ...

Macrophotography

Photography; Professional photography

Is photography which produces an image larger than the original subject size without the use of a microscope.

Replenishment

Photography; Professional photography

Addition of chemicals to a processing solution to maintain its characteristics, e.g. developers are replenished with reducing agents as the old ones are exhausted through use.

Zone system

Photography; Professional photography

Is the method of determining exposure and development required for individual scenes, invented by Ansel Adams. It is based on analysis of subject luminosities in terms of ten grey tones, labelled ...