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What is the primary function of a pantograph in photography?
What is the primary function of a pantograph in photography?
Which process produces a direct positive image?
Which process produces a direct positive image?
What is a distinctive feature of camera obscura?
What is a distinctive feature of camera obscura?
What does a tintype produce?
What does a tintype produce?
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What is the primary characteristic of pictorialism in photography?
What is the primary characteristic of pictorialism in photography?
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Which process uses ferric salts to produce prints?
Which process uses ferric salts to produce prints?
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What is a defining feature of straight photography?
What is a defining feature of straight photography?
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Which photographic method uses albumenized paper?
Which photographic method uses albumenized paper?
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Which device projects images for viewing?
Which device projects images for viewing?
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What is the purpose of pre-visualisation in photography?
What is the purpose of pre-visualisation in photography?
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Study Notes
Photography Terminology and Processes
- Pantograph: A device for enlarging or reducing images.
- Physionotrace: A method of tracing or copying physical features.
- Silhouette: A dark image against a light background, often created by tracing or removing the background.
- Camera lucida: A device that allows one to draw what one sees through it.
- Camera obscura: A darkened enclosure with a small aperture, projecting an image on the opposite surface.
- Sun printing: A process that uses sunlight to create images on sensitized materials.
- Heliography: A method of making images by exposing a chemical substance to light.
- Daguerreotype: An early photographic process that produces a positive image on a silver-plated copper plate.
- Calotype: A photographic process that produces positive and negative images on paper.
- Collodion (wet-plate): An early photographic process that uses collodion-coated glass as a support.
- Albumen paper: A photographic paper coated with egg white.
- Combination printing: Combining different photographic processes or techniques.
- Negative/positive/direct positive: Techniques for creating photographic images, with positives and negatives and direct positive methods.
- 3-part laminar structure of photographs: A layered structure relating to some photo printing processes.
- Latent image: An invisible image created by light exposure on a photosensitive material.
- Tintype: A photographic process that produces a positive image on a thin metal plate.
- Ambrotype: A photographic process that produces a positive image on glass.
- Cartes de visites: Small photographic cards, often used as visiting cards.
- Cyanotype: A photographic printing process that produces images in various shades of blue.
- Stereoscopy/stereograph: A technique to create the view of three dimensions from multiple images.
- Dry plate: A photographic process using a glass plate coated with gelatin containing light-sensitive materials.
- Instantaneous photography: A very fast photographic process.
- Snapshot: A very quick photograph, often taken spontaneously.
- Kodak: A well-known photographic company.
- Magic lantern: An early form of a slide projector.
- Magnesium flash: A flash source that uses magnesium for a bright light.
- Pictorialism: A photographic movement that emphasizes artistic composition rather than precise technical accuracy.
- Salt print: An early photographic process that produces images using salts.
- Platinum print: A photographic printing process using platinum.
- Gelatin silver print: A process that utilizes gelatin to create images using silver.
- POP (Printed out print): The result of a print process.
- DOP (Developed out print): The result of a developing process.
- Baryta: A coating material for photographic paper or plates.
- Half tone: A process to reproduce continuous tones in images.
- Straight photography: Emphasizes the direct rendering of the scene without manipulation.
- Pre-visualisation: A mental process in imaging a photo subject in advance.
- Photogravure: An image reproduction process involving etching and printing.
- Gum printing: A photographic printing process on paper using gum arabic.
- Celluloid/Nitrate film: An early film material used in photography.
- Photomechanical reproduction: A mechanical process for creating copies of photographic images.
- Photo-magazine: A magazine with photographic content.
- Autochrome: A color photographic process.
- Kodachrome: A colored photographic film.
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Test your knowledge on essential photography terminology and processes with this quiz. Discover the concepts behind techniques like pantograph, daguerreotype, and sun printing. Perfect for students and enthusiasts eager to deepen their understanding of photographic practices.
