Word Meanings - PHOTOGENY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

PHOTOGRAPHY
1. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. 2. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light. Note: The well-focused optical image
LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
CHROMOPHOTOGRAPHY
The art of producing photographs in colors.
MICROPHOTOGRAPHY
The art of making microphotographs.
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.
TELEPHOTOGRAPHY
1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls