headground
nounEtymology Blend of head + background.
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Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography Dated A background used for a headshot.
- One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783, page 567:
- But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 12: