Vocabulary Flashcards
Silver photography
photographie argentique
Digital photography
Photographie numérique
Camera obscura
Chambre noire
Box / room with 1 hole on the side
Camera lucida
Chambre claire
Drawing aid
Daguerreotype
1st photography process
1839-1850s
Calotype
1841 Talbot
paper coated with silver iodide
The shutter
L’obsturateur
A tripod
Un trépied
To pose / to strike a pose
Poser / prendre une pose
Depth of field
Profondeur de champs
Area within = sharp / area beyond = blurry
A print
Un tirage
A copper / glass plate
Intaglio printing
Une plaque de cuivre / verre
A film
Une pellicule
Wet / dry collodion
Reduced the exposure time
Produced negatives
Produced positives: ambrotype, ferrotype
Gelatino bromide of silver
Used from the 1870s on, simple and inexpensive
A developer
Révélateur (produit chimique)
To blow-up, to enlarge
A blow-up, enlargement
Agrandir
Un agrandissement
To crop
Rogner
A profile / full face / three-quarter portrait
Un portrait de profil / de face / de trois-quarts
A landscape, a cityscape, a seascape
Un paysage, un paysage urbain, une marine