Backing
Dim covering, normally on the back of a film, but sometimes between emulsion and base, to reduce halation. The backing dye disappears during processing.
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Yes, this is quite an undertaking, but unless you want to pay a company to scan them for you, this is your best option for backing up your prints.
Backing Up
Making copies of important computer files such as digital photographs in case the originals are damaged and cannot be accessed.
Backlighting
Term used to describe shooting towards the light, so your subject is lit from behind.
Backing up images. Even if you have multiple memory cards with your camera, it's a good idea to back up the data on the memory cards. After all, those vacation photos are not replaceable should the memory card break or get lost.
backing sheet
support aid such as the plastic or paper support sheet of knife-cut stencil film, indirect photoscreen stencil film, camera film, and the support sheet of pressure sensitive laminations.
Backing up your Backups: Remember, your 400GB drive will be nearly impossible to back up to tape or DVD. It is 20 $8 DD3 20 GB tape cartridges for example, or 40 dual-layer DVDs.
Backing
The dark coating, normally on the back of a film, but sometimes between emulsion and the base, to reduce halation. The backing dye disappears during the processing.
Backing up to a hard drive and storing it in a bank vault or other secure location is certainly an option. Taking advantage of the myriad offsite, or 'cloud' options is another.
For backing up the operating system drive I would recommend Acronis TrueImage Home. It supports a large variety of RAID controllers and if your system is installed on RAID 0, this is definitely the program of choice.
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With financial backing, Mannes and Godowsky built a dedicated laboratory and in 1924 took out additional patents on their work.
- Make a habit of backing up your photograph files. For recreational files, I usually make two layers of backup files: in the computer and in an external hard drive.
red window - a window covered in transparent red material in the back of a roll-film camera to show the frame numbers on the backing sheet of the film and show when to stop winding. Introduced by S.N.
ANTICURL BACKING-A transparent, gelatin coating sometimes applied to the opposite side of a photographic film from the emulsion to prevent curling by balancing the forces that tend to curl the film, as it is wet and dried during processing.
When framing valuable prints use acid free or pH-neutral backing paper and mats.
Store 35mm negatives in archival sleeves - the cheap drugstore plastic sleeves are probably not archival. Buy higher-quality sleeves from professional photo stores.
There are sheets (and rolls) of specially treated fabrics with a paper backing that stiffens the fabric enough so it can be run through the printer like a sheet of paper. You print on the fabric side and then peel away the paper backing.
Turning down the noise filter and backing off the sharpening gave better results. Unfortunately, this can't be done on the E-520 - turning down the noise filter does little to improve sharpness.
Carefully peel the emulsion from the backing and discard the backing
Place the target surface under the now-floating emulsion and carefully press it (emulsion side down) to the surface ...
You've heard admonishments about backing up your work and you are going to hear it again here. Save your original RAW files in more than one place. I routinely back up ALL my image files (RAW, TIF, and PSD) on two different computers, plus two CD's.
120 format film which has an paper backing and is supplied wound on an open spool (rather than in a light-tight cassette). Also the less common double length 220. All these films are used in Medium Format cameras.
Method of mounting a photograph to stiff backing material using dry, heat-sensitive tissue between the two. Can be ironed into place, but a press is preferred as it applies even pressure and heat to the whole surface.
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Polyvinyl album pages have a magnetic-like-quality clear film that seals your photos onto a stiff backing similar to thick poster board. Black paper album pages contain dyes that can harm photographs.
MOUNT - Frame or backing used to support and protect prints and transparencies. A transparency is generally called a slide once it is in a mount.
There is one for almost every need you can think of, from backing up your WordPress installation to asking for a cup of coffee or fighting spam.
But there are times when none of the available plugins seem to quite do the trick you are looking for.
This is an archaic naming system that I used when I was still backing up stuff to DVDs (I still do, but that is for a different section). now this only means "Have I considered the photos for submission to Alamy or not?".
Place the connecting strip so that it holds the backing board and the lens holder at the correct focusing distance of the lenses. This is known as the 'focal length".
Increase the background by backing up and use a telephoto to maintain the relative size of your subject in the frame. Decrease the size of the background by getting closer and using a more wide-angle focal length.-ZS ...
Leave the "Test integrity before backing up" and "Optimize catalog after backing up" checked and click Backup.
That’s why you need an external drive. If for nothing more than backing up everything that you keep on your computer, an external drive is an accessory that you just can’t live without.
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Place a ruler underneath the stickers and remove the backing from each sticker, one by one, lining them up neatly against each other in a straight line.
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Try getting up close, or backing farther away. Don't just rely on zoom lenses to do the walking around for you. As you change focal lengths, you change how much or what's in front of you lens takes in.
We all rush to our laptops as soon as we dry off, download images and then spend much of the rest of the day and night editing, processing, tweaking, backing up and planning for the next day.
My wife, with enthusiastic backing from two grown children (both divers!), decided our first adventure should be moving to the island of Curacao. Well needless to say I have spent a lot more time underwater with my camera.
Collage
A composition employing various different materials combined with original artwork attached to some type of backing.
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Backdrop Lighting
The even illumination of a painted or photographic background or backing, seen through the windows or doors beyond a set.
Backing photo's up on DVD disks instead of CD will also let you save more images per disk. Having a fast computer on which to edit the RAW files is also a necessity.
Kodak and HP tend to boast the easiest cameras to use with Canon and Sony backing their cameras up with tons of extra features. Other cameras are waterproof, have larger screens and even allow you to connect to a computer wirelessly.
Rollfilm. Photographic film, usually 6.2 cm wide (known as 120), attached to a numbered backing paper and rolled on a flanged spool.
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4. Remember that you should never edit your original image. And that is the image you will want to back up. (Although if you have spent hours creating special effects on an image, that's certainly worth backing up as well.) ...
If you don't have a macro lens, use a lens you have and be ready to crop the image. By backing away from the subject, you'll also get a longer depth of field.
Backing up your photos online offers you the peace of mind that your life's memories are safeguarded somewhere other than your home. Plus, you control who can view your online albums by adjusting the privacy settings on your photo sharing account.
The technics part may well tell us that DOF is the same at all focal lengths for a fixed image size on screen. What this is saying is that we achieve the same DOF whether we fill the screen with the face by walking to the subject, or backing off and ...
The gelatin had previously been made light-sensitive by a bath of potassium bichromate. After washing, the image on the tissue was transferred to a paper base and the backing of the tissue was stripped off.
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