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  2. Streetlight effect - Wikipedia

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    The streetlight effect, or the drunkard's search principle, is a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look. [1] Both names refer to a well-known joke: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost.

  3. Reciprocity (photography) - Wikipedia

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    In photography, reciprocity refers to the relationship whereby the total light energy – proportional to the total exposure, the product of the light intensity and exposure time, controlled by aperture and shutter speed, respectively – determines the effect of the light on the film. That is, an increase of brightness by a certain factor is ...

  4. List of photographic processes - Wikipedia

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    Agfacolor. Ap-41 process (pre-1978 Agfa color slides; 1978-1983 was a transition period when Agfa slowly changed their color slide films from AP-41 to E6); Anthotype; Autochrome Lumière, 1903

  5. Day for night - Wikipedia

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    With color film or video, a graduated neutral-density filter can achieve a similar effect, as can a polarizing filter. Using either of these filters can limit camera movement during a shot, as the axis of a graduated filter must match the horizon, and the effect of the polarizing filter changes as the axis of the camera lens moves relative to ...

  6. Documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    John Beasly Greene's photo of the Abu Simbel temples, 1854 Bandit's Roost (1914) by Jacob Riis. The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. . Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances date to the earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt ...

  7. Visual effects - Wikipedia

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    For example, prosthetic makeup can be used to make an actor look like a non-human creature. Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are techniques in which images or film frames are created photographically, either "in-camera" using multiple exposures, mattes, or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer ...

  8. Production board - Wikipedia

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    Many variables affect the sequence of scenes as they are arranged and rearranged on a strip board. Outdoor scenes subject to fickle weather conditions [2] [9] and difficult stunts and special effects are sometimes scheduled early in principal photography, so there is time to recover and make necessary changes if problems arise. [6]

  9. Photographic lighting - Wikipedia

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    The model was lit on the left with a strobe.The light was warmed with an orange gel to match the sunset. Photographic lighting refers to how a light source, artificial or natural, illuminates the scene or subject that is photographed; put simply, it is lighting in regards to photography.