close-up

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close -up (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to things in near proximity or a situation involving nearness.
- 1969 March 21, "Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight," Time:
  
  A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop.

close -up (plural close-ups)

(photography) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.

photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale