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| x Apollo 11 |
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The Apollo 11 mission was the first human spaceflight to land on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On...
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| x Surveyor 5 |
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Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.
Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis. A total of 19,049 images were transmitted to Earth.
The mission experienced a helium leak that could have resulted in...
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| x John F. Kennedy assassination |
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding...
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| x 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo |
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The 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo was an unsuccessful kamikaze style suicide attack launched by the air wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on February 20, 2009, targeting locations in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka. The attacks were...
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| x 2009 attack on the Dutch royal family |
The 2009 attack on the Dutch Royal Family occurred in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, where a man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included Queen Beatrix and other members of the Dutch royal family; the attack happened on April 30, the...
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| x BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant |
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The BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant was a fatal shooting in Oakland, California, United States, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train returning from...
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| x Space Shuttle Challenger disaster |
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the...
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| x Jerusalem bulldozer attack |
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| x Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 |
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked on 23 November 1996 en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on a Bombay - Addis Ababa - Nairobi - Brazzaville - Lagos - Abidjan route, by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum. The plane crash-landed in...
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| x Robert Dziekański Taser incident |
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Robert Dziekański (April 15, 1967–October 14, 2007; pronounced [ˈrɔbɛrt dʑeˈkaɲski]) was a Polish immigrant to Canada who died on October 14, 2007 after being tasered five times by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Vancouver International...
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| x Bradford City stadium fire |
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The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.
The fire broke out during a football match between the home team (Bradford City), and...
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| x FedEx Express Flight 80 |
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FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the People's Republic of China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, a McDonnell...
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| x Hindenburg disaster |
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The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday 6 May 1937 as the LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within one minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the...
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| x Death of Dale Earnhardt |
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The death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. during an auto race on February 18, 2001, was a highly-publicized event that generated intense interest from the media and resulted in various safety improvements in NASCAR auto racing.
Earnhardt was a seven-time...
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| x Nedelin catastrophe |
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The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960, at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM. As a prototype of the missile was being prepared for a test flight, it...
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| x Ramstein airshow disaster |
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The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's deadliest airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on August 28, 1988, in Ramstein, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern...
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| x Sknyliv airshow disaster |
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The Sknyliv airshow disaster occurred on 27 July 2002 when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed during an aerobatics presentation at Sknyliv airfield (now known as Lviv International Airport) near Lviv, Ukraine. 84...
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| x United Airlines Flight 232 |
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United Airlines flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport, in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, and then would continue on to Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia,...
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| x Versailles wedding hall disaster |
The Versailles wedding hall (Hebrew: אולמי ורסאי), located in Talpiot, Jerusalem, is the site of the worst civil disaster in Israel's history. At 22:43 on Thursday night, May 24, 2001 during the wedding of Keren and Asaf Dror, a large portion of...
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| x Construction of the RCA Building |
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| x Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper |
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center.
The...
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| x Color correction |
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Color correction by using color gels, or filters, is a process used in stage lighting, photography, television, cinematography and other disciplines, the intention of which is to alter the overall color of the light; typically the light color is...
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| x Bias frame |
In digital photography, a bias frame is an image obtained from an opto-electronic image sensor, with no actual exposure time. The image so obtained only contains noise due to the electronics that elaborate the sensor data, and not noise from charge...
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| x Bracketing |
In photography, bracketing is the general technique of taking several shots of the same subject using different or the same camera settings. Bracketing is useful and often recommended in situations that make it difficult to obtain a satisfactory...
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| x Burned |
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An image is said to be burned when its original gamut considerably exceeds the target gamut, or when the result of processing considerably exceeds the image's gamut. Colloquially, an image is burned when it contains uniform blobs of color, black, or...
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| x Burst mode |
Burst is a mode in a camera mostly in SLRs. In this mode, several images can be captured with one press on the shutter. This is used mainly in mixed-light conditions or when the subject is in successive motion. The photographer can then select the...
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| x Flopped |
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A flopped image is a static or moving image that is generated by a mirror-reversal of an original across a vertical axis. Flopping can be used to improve the subjective aesthetic appeal of the image in question.
There are two main uses in...
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| x Focus stacking |
Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images (Johnson 2008, 336; Ray...
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| x Forced perspective |
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Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception...
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| x Framing |
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In photography and cinematography, framing is a technique used to bring the focus to the subject.
Frames serve the double purpose of making a more aesthetically pleasing image and keeping the focus on the framed object(s). They add depth to the...
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| x Three-point lighting |
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Three-point lighting is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. By using three separate positions, the photographer can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however...
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| x Tilt-shift miniature faking |
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Miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale model. Blurring parts of the photo simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered in close-up...
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| x Tilt-shift photography |
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"Tilt-shift photography" refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the...
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| x Tilted plane focus |
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Focus is relative to spatial depth. Selective focus in photography is usually associated with depth of focus. A pinhole generates an image of ‘infinite’ relative focus from a point just outside the opening out to infinity. Lenses focus more...
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| x Tinted photograph |
Tinted photograph is a term used to refer to photographs produced on dyed printing papers produced by commercial manufacturers. A single overall colour underlies the image and is most apparent in the highlights and mid-tones. From the 1870s albumen...
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| x Tobacco bowdlerization |
Tobacco bowdlerization occurs when a publisher or government agency expurgates a photograph, text, or video document to remove images and references to consuming tobacco products. It often occurs in conjunction with traditional restrictions on...
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| x Dark frame subtraction |
In digital photography, dark frame subtraction is a way to minimize image noise for pictures taken with long exposure times. It takes advantage of the fact that a component of image noise, known as fixed-pattern noise, is the same from shot to shot:...
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| x Deep focus |
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Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique incorporating a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image — that is, how much of it appears sharp and clear. Consequently, in deep focus the...
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| x Diagonal method |
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The diagonal method (DM) is a relatively new composition line in the photography. From dissatisfaction with other composition rules as the rule of thirds and the golden section, the Dutch photographer and lecturer Edwin Westhoff via visual...
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| x Digiscoping |
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Digiscoping is a method of obtaining photos using a digital camera through a spotting scope, telescope or, less often, binoculars. Afocal projection is a method of astrophotography in which photographs are taken by holding or mounting the camera...
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| x Photo restoration |
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Photo restoration is the practice of restoring a photograph which has been damaged or affected by age.
Digital photo restoration uses digital image editing techniques to remove visible damage and aging effects from photographs. Software such as...
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| x Hand-colouring |
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Hand-colouring refers to any of a number of methods of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph or other image to heighten its realism. Typically, water-colours, oils and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using...
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| x Harris Shutter |
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The Harris shutter is a strip device with three color filters, invented by Robert S. "Bob" Harris of Kodak, for making color photographs with the different primary color layers exposed in separate time intervals in succession. The term Harris...
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| x Photographic print toning |
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In photography, toning means changing the color of black-and-white photographs. In analog photography, toning is the result of several chemical processes carried out on silver-based photographic prints. The effects of these processes can be emulated...
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| x Pre-flashing |
In cinematography and photography, pre-flashing is the exposure of the film or other photosensor to uniform light prior to exposing it to the scene to be imaged. This adds a bias to the overall light input recorded by the sensor.
It is sometimes...
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| x Push printing |
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In photography, push printing and push developing refer to a process where a picture is printed as if it were a film speed higher than intended by the film manufacturer. For instance, a photo which is metered one f-stop under can be pushed a stop to...
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| x Push processing |
Push processing in photography, sometimes called uprating, refers to a film developing technique that increases the effective sensitivity of the film being processed. Push processing involves developing the film for more time, possibly in...
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| x Cropping |
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Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio. Depending on the application, this may be performed on a physical photograph, artwork or film footage, or achieved...
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| x Cylindrical perspective |
Cylindrical perspective is caused by fisheye and panoramic lenses which reproduce straight horizontal lines above and below the lens axis level as curved while reproducing straight horizontal lines on lens axis level as straight. This is also a...
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| x Bliss |
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Bliss is the name of a BMP image produced from a photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County, California, southeast of Sonoma Valley near the site of the old Clover Stornetta Inc. Dairy. It is so named because it contains rolling green hills and a...
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| x Dancing Man |
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The Dancing Man is the name given to the man who was filmed dancing on the street in Sydney, Australia, after the end of World War II. On 15 August 1945, a reporter took note of a man's joyful expression and dance and asked him to do it again. The...
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| x Raising the Flag at Ground Zero |
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Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following...
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| x Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath |
Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath is a renowned photograph taken by famed American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith in 1971. Many commentators regard Tomoko as Smith's greatest work. The black and white photo depicts a mother cradling her severely deformed,...
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| x Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 |
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Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 is a black and white photograph taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco, California on the morning of April 18, 1906 in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Looking Down...
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| x Yo Mama's Last Supper |
Yo Mama's Last Supper is a controversial work of art by Renée Cox. It is a montage of five photographs of 12 men (11 black, 1 white) and a naked black woman (the artist's self portrait) posed in imitation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last...
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| x Red ceiling |
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The Red Ceiling is the title of a photograph by William Eggleston. It is also known as Greenwood, Mississippi, 1973 after the location and year it was taken.
A dye transfer print measuring 13 7/8 by 21 11/16 inches, Eggleston considers it among his...
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| x Burst of Joy |
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Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California. The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the...
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| x Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika |
Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika is a photograph taken by Martin Munkácsi in 1929 or 1930.
While Munkácsi is known for his fashion photography, he established his reputation with his news photography that was mostly published in German weeklies. This...
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The Tennis Girl poster is a hugely popular iconic poster. It shows a young woman from behind walking towards the net of a tennis court with a tennis racquet in her right hand and her left hand reaching behind lifting her short tennis dress, showing...
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