Tuesday 19 April 2016

Traditional Photographic Processes

Negatives - A negative effect is when a bright proportion of an area becomes very dark, and the dark areas become light.

Enlarger - An enlarger has a lens which allows for the negative to be projected onto the photographic paper. You can also increase the distance from the enlarger to the paper, so that you can create really large prints.

Developer - A photograph developer is a chemical which reacts to the areas of the light sensitive paper so that an image appears.

Stop - In photography, stop simply means increasing the exposure by 1 to allow more light inside the camera. For example, photographers use 'stop' to create 3 separate (or more) images, comparing previous shots that the photographer has taken.

Fixer - Fixer is a chemical which fixes the photographic images to the paper.

Printing - There are several types of photographic paper e.g. gloss (that has a shiny finish) matte (which has a dull non reflective finish) and pearl (which is between matte and gloss).

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