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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Black silver

Photography; Professional photography

Finely divided metallic silver formed from silver halides by exposure and development.

Coherent light

Photography; Professional photography

Light waves that vibrate with constant phase relationships. They can be produced by a laser or a combination of two prisms.

F stop

Photography; Professional photography

Number that equals the focal length of the lens divided by the diameter of the aperture.

Is a method of altering the tonal range of prints on matte or textured fibre papers. The dried print is rubbed with a medium consisting of two parts of turpentine to one of mastic varnish and one of ...

Soft focus lens

Photography; Professional photography

Lens, uncorrected for spherical aberrations, used to produce a soft focus effect.

Reciprocity law

Photography; Professional photography

States that exposure = intensity x time, where intensity is equal to the amount of light and time is equal to the time that amount of light is allowed to act upon the photographic emulsion.