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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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Warm colours

Photography; Professional photography

Are any colours which, by association, suggest warmth, such as red, orange and yellow.

Baryta

Photography; Professional photography

Coating of barium sulphate applied as the foundation to fibre based printing papers.

Lens hood

Photography; Professional photography

Opaque tube, either cylindrical, square of funnel shaped, use to shield a lens from stray light outside the field of view.

Pulling

Photography; Professional photography

Method of underrating the normal ISO speed of a film to produce an overexposed latent image.

Vortograph

Photography; Professional photography

Is an abstract photograph made with a simple kaleidoscopic apparatus, first used by Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1917.

Lens drive system

Photography; Professional photography

Used in autofocus SLR cameras. One type has a motor located inside the lens; in another, a motor inside the camera body turns the lens via a drive shaft.

Protective toning

Photography; Professional photography

Toning process used to protect black and white prints from fading and give archival permanence. Usually used selenium or gold toners.

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