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colour photography
" The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
Gabriel Lippmann

Meaning of "colour photography" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

ˈkʌlə fəˈtɒɡrəfɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colour photography is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Color photography

Color photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase. By contrast, black-and-white photography records only a single channel of luminance and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, light-sensitive chemicals or electronic sensors record color information at the time of exposure. This is usually done by analyzing the spectrum of colors into three channels of information, one dominated by red, another by green and the third by blue, in imitation of the way the normal human eye senses color. The recorded information is then used to reproduce the original colors by mixing various proportions of red, green and blue light, or by using dyes or pigments to remove various proportions of the red, green and blue which are present in white light. Monochrome images which have been "colorized" by tinting selected areas by hand or mechanically or with the aid of a computer are "colored photographs," not "color photographs.

Definition of colour photography in the English dictionary

The definition of colour photography in the dictionary is the art or process of taking and developing photographs in colour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

colour code · colour commentator · colour contrast · colour film · colour filter · colour guard · colour index · colour line · colour phase · colour photograph · colour printer · colour scheme · colour separation · colour separation overlay · colour sergeant · colour slide · colour subcarrier · colour supplement · colour television · colour temperature

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

angiography · autobiography · bibliography · biography · calligraphy · choreography · computed tomography · crystallography · demography · discography · filmography · geography · historiography · oceanography · orthography · pornography · radiography · tomography · topography · typography · videography

Synonyms and antonyms of colour photography in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colour photography» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

Find out the translation of colour photography to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of colour photography from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colour photography» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

彩色摄影
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

la fotografía en color
570 millions of speakers
en

English

colour photography
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

रंग फोटोग्राफी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التصوير الفوتوغرافي الملون
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

цветная фотография
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

fotografia a cores
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

রঙ ফোটোগ্রাফি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

la photographie en couleurs
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Fotografi warna
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Farbfotografie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

カラー撮影
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

컬러 사진
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Warna fotografi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chụp ảnh màu
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வண்ண புகைப்படம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

रंग फोटोग्राफी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Renkli fotoğraf
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

fotografia a colori
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Fotografia kolorowa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

кольорова фотографія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

fotografii în culori
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έγχρωμη φωτογραφία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleur fotografie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färgfotografering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fargefotografering
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colour photography

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of colour photography
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «colour photography».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colour photography

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QUOTES WITH «COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colour photography.
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Gabriel Lippmann
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY»

Discover the use of colour photography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colour photography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The illustrated history of colour photography
Brings to life the challenges and developments of Technicolor, Kodachrome, Agfacolor, Kodacolor, Cibachrome, Polaroid and electronic photography.
Jack Howard Roy Coote, 1993
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Exploring Colour Photography: A Complete Guide
This comprehensive book is ordered to build a reassuringly thorough foundation of knowledge for photo-based colour work.
Robert Hirsch, 2005
3
Century of Colour Photography: From the Autochrome to the ...
Pamela Roberts, a former Curator at the Royal Photographic Society, has gathered together an outstanding collection of colour photography from the last 100 years.
Pam Roberts, 2009
4
Elements of colour photography: the making of eighty images ...
George Todd, a teacher of and writer on photography, selects 80 of his ownolour images and describes the story behind each of them in this book.
George E. Todd, 2003
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Three-Colour Photography - Three-Colour Printing and the ...
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Arthur Freiherrn Hubl, 2011
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Photography: A Critical Introduction
In the 1960s colour photography was largely confined to advertising and the publicity industry until the American William Eggleston started to use it in his work . With the support of John Szarkowski he mounted a now famous exhibition at the  ...
Liz Wells, 2004
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Basics Photography 03: Capturing Colour
When using Wratten filters in colour photography, it is necessary to take into account the fact that all filters block certain wavelengths and, as such, reduce the amount of light reaching the film. Each filter has an associated filter factor, which tells ...
Phil Malpas, 2007
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Basics Photography 05: Post Production Colour
The lights, shades and colours ! a true representation of the original object gative a widely used term for both black-and-white and colour photography film. The emulsion captures it in opposite wavelengths from the subject and, once ...
Steve MacLeod, 2008
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Manual of Photography
Methods of colour photography that involve the use of filters of primary hues at the viewing stage, in similar fashion to Maxwell's process, are called additive methods. In the context of colour photography the hues blue, green and red are ...
Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, 2000
10
Langford's Advanced Photography
It presents the principles that have been applied to colour photography, both analogue and digital. In the beginning of the chapter you will see how colour is produced from visible light and how we can get information about the colour of a light ...
Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colour photography is used in the context of the following news items.
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18 rare colour photographs of the Russian Empire from over 100 …
Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the first to use colour photography in the early 20th ... «Business Insider Australia, Jul 15»
2
The Quiet Racism of Instagram Filters
In Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television, British academic Brian Winston writes, "Colour photography is not ... «Racked, Jul 15»
3
The Date Night Cook Book
The book comprises of six chapters with stunning colour photography and simple recipes that won't break the bank: Indoor Tent Night, ... «Bournemouth Echo, Jul 15»
4
Rarely seen colour pictures by famed war photographer Robert …
Capa, born Endre Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, began experimenting with colour photography in 1938 and it soon became an integral, ... «mysask.com, Jul 15»
5
Harry Gruyaert: 'I discovered how to see'
At that time, colour photography was relegated to advertising work. “Very few people got involved in colour in a personal way,” he says. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Theatre of glamour: Montreal hosts a brilliant exhibit of Horst's …
Horst's colour photography dispensed with the suggestive shadows of his black-and-white Paris portraits. (Images by Horst P. Horst/Condé ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
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International acclaim
The International Colour Awards is a leading event honouring excellence in colour photography, shining a spotlight on the best professional ... «Torquay Herald Express, Jun 15»
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The banker and his Utopian peace mission
Dawn of colour photography ... The exhibition, “World in colour – colour photography before 1915”, runs at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich until September 27, ... «swissinfo.ch, May 15»
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Gulf Photo Plus celebrates colour photography with RGB exhibition
This year, to celebrate colour photography, GPP invited the photography community to present their work under the title RGB (Red, Green and ... «The National, May 15»
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Stunning beach snaps from 1913 are oldest surviving colour …
Because, despite their trendy feel, they were taken by her dad in 1913 as he pioneered colour photography. Electrical engineer Mervyn ... «mirror.co.uk, May 15»
REFERENCE
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