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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Lightbox

Photography; Professional photography

Box of fluorescent tubes balanced for white light and covered with translucent glass or plastic. Used for viewing, registering or correcting film negatives and positives.

Rack and pinion focusing

Photography; Professional photography

Mechanical focusing system used on copying or monorail cameras. A pinion engages a rack on a slide. Focusing is achieved by turning a knob or wheel, which moves the lens or image panel.

Spool

Photography; Professional photography

Bobbin like object consisting of a narrow core with flat discs on either end, around which the film is wound.

Blue sensitive

Photography; Professional photography

Sensitive to blue light only. All silver halides used in traditional black and white emulsions are sensitive to blue light, but early photographic materials had only this sensitivity.

Enhanced back printing

Photography; Professional photography

Advanced Photo System feature available in some cameras that enables users to encode detailed information at the time of picture-taking.

Glazer

Photography; Professional photography

Machine on which wet fibre base prints are placed face down in contact with a polished surface, such a chromed steel, and held by tension. The surface is then heated to dry the print.