Entertainment / Photography Glossary

Full Scale Print: Print having a wide range of tonalities.

Futurism: Art movement started in italy c. 1910, characterized by an aggressive rejection of tradition, and the representation of the dynamic movement of machinery.

G Curve: Average gradient of a characteristic curve, describing similar characteristics to gamma, but measuring the slope from a line joining the lower and upper limits of the curve actually used in practice.

Galvanography: Technique of electroplating a gelatin relief image created photographically to produce a photomechanical printing plate.

Gamma: Measurement used in sensitometry to describe the angle made between the straight line portion of the characteristic curve of the photograph emulsion and the base of the graph. The gamma is t . . . View Full Definition

Gelatin: Natural protein used as a transparent medium to hold light sensitive silver halide crystals in suspension, binding them to the printing paper or film, yet swelling to allow entry of processi . . . View Full Definition

Gelatin Filters: Filters cut from dyed gelatin sheets and held in front of the lens or studio light.

Gelatin Sugar Process: Daylight printing process using paper with a sugar and dichromate coating, which hardens on exposure to light.

Ghost Images: Bright spots of light, often taking the shape of the aperture, which appear in the camera viewfinder or in the final photograph when a lens is pointed at a bright light like the sun. Ghost i . . . View Full Definition

Glaze: Glossy surface produced on some (non resin coated) printing papers. It is achieved by placing a wet print to to a heated drum or clean polished surface. Glazed print produce denser medium bl . . . View Full Definition

Glazer: Machine on which wet fiber base prints are placed face down in contact with a polished surface, such a chromed steel, and held by tension. The surface is then heated to dry the print.

Glossy Paper: Printing paper with a smooth shiny surface finish to give maximum detail and tonal range.

Gold Chloride: Soluble chemical used in gold toners.

Gold Mean: Compositional technique used to determine the 'ideal' position of the main subject in the frame. It is based on creating a rectangle from a square. A line drawn from the center of one side o . . . View Full Definition

GOST: Arithmetical system of rating film speed used in soviet bloc countries.

Gradation: Tonal contrast range of an image.

Grade: System of terms and numbers used to denote the contrast characteristics of black and white printing papers.

Graduate: Vessel used for measuring liquids.

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67