In photography, a positive is defined as?

• A. An image produced directly from a camera.
• B. A negative print.
• C. An image created by digital color correction.
• D. An image made from a negative in which the tones are re-reversed and corrected.

Answer: (D)

In photography, a positive is the final image that represents the scene with correct tonal values, produced from a negative. The negative records light in reverse, so bright areas appear dark and vice versa. The printing or projection process reverses that inversion and, if needed, adjusts the tonal range so the final image looks natural to the eye. The description that this is an image made from a negative in which the tones are re-reversed and corrected captures exactly what happens: you start with the negative, reverse the tonal values to create a positive, and apply tonal corrections so the final result matches the scene. The other options describe capture or processing steps that don’t define the positive final image from a negative.