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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brightline viewfinder

Photography; Professional photography

viewfinder in which the subject is outlined by a bright frame, apparently suspended in space. This may show parallax correction marks, or lines indicating the fields of view of different focal ...

everset shutter

Photography; Professional photography

simple camera shutter mechanism on which a single depression of the release both tensions and fires the shutter.

magenta

Photography; Professional photography

is the complimentary color to green. It is composed of blue and red light.

resolving power

Photography; Professional photography

ability of the eye, lens or photographic emulsion to determine fine detail. In photography, the quality of the final image is a result of the resolving power of both the lens and the sensitive ...

abbe number

Photography; Professional photography

denotes the degree of refraction of light of different wavelengths to different extents, given by a transparent material, such as glass. The lower the Abbe number, the greater the dispersion of ...

color reversal

Photography; Professional photography

film designed to produce a normal color positive image on the film exposed in the camera for subsequent viewing by transmitted light.

clumps of silver-halide grains in film and paper that constitute the image. These grains are produced both in the exposure process (film grain) and in the development process (paper grain). Unlike ...