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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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Colour balance

Photography; Professional photography

Adjustment in colour photographic processes ensuring that a neutral scale of grey tones is reproduced accurately.

Gelatin sugar process

Photography; Professional photography

Daylight printing process using paper with a sugar and dichromate coating, which hardens on exposure to light.

Open flash

Photography; Professional photography

Is a method of flash operation using the following sequence: shutter opened, flash fired, shutter closed. Usually shutter duration is unimportant since the available light is much dimmer than the ...

Opalotype

Photography; Professional photography

Is an obsolete printing process in which a carbon-process image is transferred on to translucent opal glass.

Speed

Photography; Professional photography

Sensitivity of a photographic emulsion to light. Films are given ISO or DIN numbers denoting speed characteristics.

Blotter

Photography; Professional photography

Sheet or sheets of absorbent material made expressly for photographic prints. Wet prints dry flat and quickly when placed between blotters.

Emulsion

Photography; Professional photography

Light sensitive material which consists of a suspension of silver halides in gelatin.

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