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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Bounce light

Photography; Professional photography

Light that is directed away from the subject toward a reflective surface.

Equivalent focal length

Photography; Professional photography

Distance in a lens between the front nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is set to focus a subject at infinity. In a telephoto lens the equivalent focal length is shorter than the back ...

Macro attachment

Photography; Professional photography

Are supplementary elements attached to the front of a normal lens to give an extreme close-up facility.

Rehalogenization

Photography; Professional photography

Process by which black metallic silver is converted back to silver halides. It is used in bleaching for toners and intensification.

Yellow

Photography; Professional photography

Is the colour formed by mixing red and green light. Yellow is complimentary to blue, and is one of the three colours used in subtractive colour synthesis.

Colour developer

Photography; Professional photography

Developer designed to reduce exposed silver halides of black silver and at the same time create oxidation byproducts that will react with colour couplers to form specific dyes.

Gold mean

Photography; Professional photography

Compositional technique used to determine the "ideal" position of the main subject in the frame. It is based on creating a rectangle from a square. A line drawn from the centre of one side of the ...