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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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Professional photography

Projector

Photography; Professional photography

Apparatus used to display enlarged still or moving images on to a screen.

Viscous processing

Photography; Professional photography

Is a process using chemicals carried in sticky semifluid substances instead of normal liquids. Used for instant picture processing.

Chromatic aberration

Photography; Professional photography

Inability of a lens to bring light from the same subject plane but of different wavelengths to a common plane of image or focus.

Negative

Photography; Professional photography

Is the image produced on a photographic emulsion by the product of exposure and development, in which tones are reversed so that highlights appear dark and shadows appear light.

Slave unit

Photography; Professional photography

Mechanism which fires other flash sources simultaneously when a photo-electric cell is activated by the illumination emitted by a camera linked flash.

Barium sulphate

Photography; Professional photography

Compound used in the manufacture of photographic printing paper to give bright white highlights in the final print.

Documentary photography

Photography; Professional photography

Taking of photographs to provide a record of social and political situations with the aim of conveying information.

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