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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
photographic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a photographic collection
▪ The museum’s photographic collection dates from the nineteenth century.
a photographic memory (=the ability to remember every detail of things that you have seen)
▪ Unless you have a photographic memory, you forget half of what you read as soon as you close the book.
photographic memory
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
equipment
▪ The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.
▪ The two Davises were seated in a carriage pulling their cart, which contained photographic equipment.
▪ Jewellery and photographic equipment limited to £200 in all.
▪ But there was no sign of any photographic equipment about.
▪ I offered to carry his photographic equipment.
evidence
▪ The group obtains film and photographic evidence of problem areas that is then used to press for changes in legislation.
▪ The class make an image of something which is then put into a fictional context as photographic evidence.
film
▪ Examples used to illustrate the theme included photographic film and a sectioned catalytic converter.
▪ An interesting development is the direct synthesis of acetic anhydride, used to make cellulose acetate for photographic film base.
▪ Computer programs can transform these images to plan views but the resolution can not match that achieved by conventional photographic films.
▪ For some purposes, direct output to photographic film is preferable to paper output.
▪ They show up as curved lines on a photographic film.
▪ Digital picture quality is said to be still no match for conventional photographic film but the big advantage is immediacy.
▪ Kodak is known world-wide and is being used almost as a generic term for photographic film and paper.
image
▪ The Symbolist poets and artists were unanimous in their aversion to the photographic image.
▪ The quality of the photographic images is very good and offers step by step examples of ideas.
▪ He has inverted the traditional precepts governing the photographic image, demonstrating the value of visual contradiction.
▪ Positive a true photographic image of the original made on paper or film.
▪ Odilon Redon questioned the universal assumption that the photographic image was a transmitter of truth.
▪ Through photographic images we see a few of the attempts by contemporary artists to find the real face.
▪ New ways, he believed, must perforce be antagonistic to the photographic image.
material
▪ She makes negative prints and she manipulates photographic materials with acid.
▪ Artists found it expedient to hide the fact of their use of photographic material or its influence upon them.
memory
▪ I've got a photographic memory for some things.
▪ He was blessed with a photographic memory.
▪ How good is your photographic memory?
▪ Even if my grandmother had had a photographic memory, there simply was no record of her arrival.
paper
▪ However, the automatic print-out was made with ultra-violet light on photographic paper which required exposure to strong light to fix it.
▪ Inevitably, when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper.
plate
▪ The image appears on a fluorescent screen or a photographic plate.
▪ The creature can scarcely have sabotaged a photographic plate without leaving any sign upon its wrapping.
▪ The type specimen-the very substance-of this new form is a set of dark bands on a photographic plate.
▪ There is an important difference between holograms on photographic plates and holograms on photorefractive substances.
▪ Why were the photographic plates in Roentgen's laboratory continually becoming blackened?
▪ Between the source and your highly sensitive photographic plate sits Watson.
▪ The elements present emitted wavelengths which were recorded on a photographic plate.
▪ According to Miss Latham, having set up the photographic plates in the observatory dome, they stepped outside.
portrait
▪ Himalayan Climber provides a comprehensive photographic portrait of his remarkable climbing career.
▪ The slots cut out for the photographic portraits were arched.
▪ Her photographic portraits, landscapes and scenes from everyday life are on show at Claire Burrus until the end of the month.
▪ Years later one of his photographic portraits was purchased by the museum.
print
▪ Within twenty years there was a thriving industry in photographic prints, which included impressive landscapes, views and still lives.
▪ Their opposite numbers favored an attitude that fostered any means by which the aesthetic character of the photographic print might be enhanced.
▪ Current video printers can produce a paper image approaching the quality of a photographic print and are improving all the time.
▪ Most scanners are designed to work with photographic prints, although expensive models can also handle negatives or slides.
▪ Bromide a photographic print made on bromide paper.
process
▪ The photographic process can also, therefore, exacerbate the voyeuristic gaze.
▪ The advantages in both the accuracy and speed of the photographic process were almost universally acclaimed.
▪ Fox Talbot continued to work on his own photographic process in 1839-40 and patented his positive-negative process in 1841.
record
▪ Biological and entomological studies gained momentum through the photographic record.
▪ The photographic record alone, indeed, has still to be exploited fully by historians.
▪ All were detected by comparison of the lesion at the follow-up visit with the previous photographic record.
▪ The sources Ge rme used included history books, the work of archaeologists, travellers' reminiscences and photographic records.
▪ There are three main types of record that are made: drawn records, photographic records, and written records.
▪ My aim is to make a photographic record of these countries before the developing world we live in changes them for ever.
reproduction
▪ He would take a successful picture by Ge rme and purchase its lithographic and photographic reproduction rights.
▪ The artist is often compelled to work with the photographic reproduction in mind.
▪ Electronic stencils produce photographic reproduction. 4.
▪ The prose of this chapter measures the adequacy of verbal accounts of catastrophe in the age of photographic reproduction.
studio
▪ In 1860 he set up a photographic studio.
▪ Boris Zhukov's photographic studio was a converted attic on the fourth floor of a cycle repair factory on Chukovsky Avenue.
▪ Confident Kerry was so keen she even approached a Liverpool photographic studio asking for work.
▪ Cover Girl International is a make-over and photographic studio based in London.
▪ A boom was experienced by photographic studios trying to deal with the demand for portraits of those who were going into battle.
▪ Similarly, a photographer who also occupies a ground-floor unit needed a huge room that could operate as a photographic studio.
technique
▪ The workshop is open to beginners and experienced photographers who want to improve their photographic techniques.
▪ Generally, it is very difficult to find asteroids smaller than about 1 kilometer in diameter using photographic techniques.
▪ These sessions are balanced with lectures and demonstrations on photographic techniques.
▪ His landscapes were considered to be supreme examples of photographic technique, a number of them being published.
work
▪ Jo Spence went on to explore her childhood experience in her own photographic work.
▪ In the sophisticated photographic work of the time the themes of martial conflict and civilian anguish are intertwined.
▪ I foresee the photographic work becoming much more project oriented than it has been - for specific publications etc.
▪ She has also collected huge libel payouts together with fees for her photographic work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
photographic techniques
▪ a photographic exhibition
▪ a photographic image
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apple computers have long been standard equipment in the graphics and photographic industry.
▪ Between the source and your highly sensitive photographic plate sits Watson.
▪ I've got a photographic memory for some things.
▪ I have a temporary photographic memory.
▪ If we look at other photographic genres, we can also observe the way in which commodity culture has affected their development.
▪ New ways, he believed, must perforce be antagonistic to the photographic image.
▪ The slots cut out for the photographic portraits were arched.
▪ The text was photographic copies of her own handwriting and the thousands of plates required were laboriously produced on hand-coated paper.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photographic

Photographic \Pho`to*graph"ic\, Photographical \Pho`to*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. photographique.] Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
photographic

1839, from photograph + -ic. Photographic memory is from 1940. Related: Photographical; photographically.

Wiktionary
photographic

a. Pertaining to photographs or photography.

WordNet
photographic
  1. adj. relating to photography or obtained by using photography; "photographic equipment"

  2. representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "photographic".

Everett Everett Barr passed the portentous strip of photographic paper around for examination.

Figure 279 represents a somewhat similar hypertrophic condition of the scalp and face reported in the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.

If an alien probe is there, could we spot it among the countless dots and specks that will represent stars, micrometeorites, planetoids, photographic plate flaws, and dust?

Yes, Miss Phosphor McCabe did the really stunning photographic article for Heritage Geographical Magazine.

Donchez shook his head as he crouched over a table with the CIA photographic intelligence of the OMEGA submarine surfaced at the icecap, the detail fine enough to see the rungs of the handholds going up the side of the sail to the bridge.

One day he noticed that unexposed photographic plates were ruined when they were stored near the tubes.

Just as the Action Picture has its photographic basis or fundamental metaphor in the long chase down the highway, so the Intimate Film has its photographic basis in the fact that any photoplay interior has a very small ground plan, and the cosiest of enclosing walls.

The fanged and grinning head, turned up by some freak so that the empty eyepits stared at the two men above, bore a photographic resemblance to the dragons of his childhood reading!

We pressed a series of gelatin-coated photographic papers onto the comforter with a hot iron and then treated the papers to find the presence of nitrates, which would be found if there existed nitrocellulose on the comforter that had been incompletely burned.

Skyjack proposal by photographic impressions on photomagnetic wire fine enough for a coil of the wire to measure less than, say, twenty or thirty inches?

As they negotiated the clutter of solenoids, induction coils, Crookes tubes, and photographic equipment, all inexplicably intertwined with pipets and tubing, Harold felt himself sorely missing the opportunities provided by a good lab.

A glimpse of that beakish profile in the flesh would give The Shadow a photographic impression that he would not forget.

Although the photographic impresario with the failing eyesight had kept to his agreement and permitted a credit linein the smallest typeto the operators who had made the stunning pictures, the photos were presented as a Brady Gallery special event.

While Scott was posing with his shirt off, an English actress entered for her photographic appointment and Brady had quickly stepped in front of the general, saving the day by preserving his modesty.

Again the viewscreen crackled and a crazyquilt of static coalesced to form a photographic likeness of Abraham Lincoln.