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# Key Terminology/Processes for Review This list provides various terms and processes related to photography. **Early Photographic Processes:** * **Pantograph:** A mechanical device used for enlarging or reducing images. * **Physionotrace:** A process for creating portraits. * **Silhouette:** A...

# Key Terminology/Processes for Review This list provides various terms and processes related to photography. **Early Photographic Processes:** * **Pantograph:** A mechanical device used for enlarging or reducing images. * **Physionotrace:** A process for creating portraits. * **Silhouette:** A dark image against a light background. * **Camera Lucida:** An optical instrument that allows viewing and tracing images. * **Camera Obscura:** A darkened enclosure with a small aperture, projecting an inverted image onto an inside surface. * **Sun printing:** A photographic process using sunlight to create an image. * **Heliography:** An early photographic process. * **Daguerreotype:** An early photographic process that produces a direct positive image. * **Calotype:** An early photographic process using paper negatives. * **Collodion (wet-plate):** A photographic process requiring wet collodion plates. * **Albumen paper:** A photographic process using albumenized paper. **Other Processes and Techniques:** * **Combination printing:** A process that combines various photographic techniques. * **Negative/positive/direct positive:** Different types of photographic images. * **3-part laminar structure of photographs:** A description of the layering in some photographs. * **Latent image:** An invisible image not yet visible to the naked eye. * **Tintype:** A photographic process producing a metallic image on a thin sheet. * **Ambrotype:** A photographic process producing a transparent image on glass covered with a dark coating. * **Cartes de visites:** Small photographic portraits. * **Cyanotype:** A photographic process using ferric salts to produce blue-toned prints. * **Stereoscopy/stereograph:** A process for creating three-dimensional images. * **Dry plate:** A photographic plate that doesn't require wet processing. * **Instantaneous photography:** Photographs developed quickly. * **Snapshot:** A spontaneous photograph. * **Kodak:** A famous photographic brand. * **Magic lantern:** A device that projects images. * **Magnesium flash:** An early flash technology. * **Pictorialism:** Emphasis on artistic composition in photography. * **Salt print:** A photographic print using salt. * **Platinum print:** A photographic print using platinum. * **Gelatin silver print:** A photographic process using gelatin and silver. * **POP (Printed out print):** A method of creating a print. * **DOP (Developed out print):** An image developed directly from a negative. * **Baryta:** A paper coating material used in photography. * **Half-tone:** A technique for reproducing continuous tone images. * **Straight photography:** Photography that prioritizes a faithful rendering of reality. * **Pre-visualisation:** Conceptualization of a photograph before its creation. * **Photogravure:** A process used for producing prints from images. * **Gum printing:** A photographic technique using gum arabic. * **Celluloid/nitrate film:** An early film material. * **Photomechanical reproduction:** A process of creating multiple images from a single original. * **Photo-magazine:** Magazine containing photographs. * **Autochrome:** An early color photography process. * **Kodachrome:** A well-known color film. This is a list of key terminology/processes in early and historical photography.