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Absorption of light; Absorb; Absorbing surface; Black card
Abstract Photography
Add-in (addin); Add-on (addon) (software)
Adapter, Reverse ring mount
Adjustable Camera
Aesthetic; Aesthetics;
Aesthetics – Composition (photographic)
Ambient Light
Analysis, Deconvolution; Deconvolution
Aperture
Artifact
Aspect ratio
Auto-focus Hunting
Axis (optical)
Backdrop
Background
Backlight (also kicker or rim lighting)
Barn doors (light modifier)
Beauty Dish (light modifier)
Bellows, photographic
Bellows camera; View camera;
Berne Convention
Bipod
Bokeh
Black card; Black reflector; Absorption of light; Absorb; Absorbing surface;
Bulb Setting
Burn out; burnt out; blown out; blow out; burnt highlight; blown highlight
Camera, View (view camera; Camera,Bellows (bellows camera)
Camera lens; Photographic Lens; Photographic objective; Lens
Catchlights; Catch Lights; Catch-lights;
Chroma key
Circle of Confusion
Cloning; To Clone; Cloned; Clone Tool;
Close-up photography; Macro photography; photomacrography; macrography
Cold shoe
Collage
Colour Depth
Colour temperature
Composition (photographic aesthetics)
Copyright; Copyrights; Copyrighting;
CR2 files; NEF files; TIFF files; RAW format files; TIFF; DNG; NEF; CR2; CRW and others
Crop; Cropping; Cropped;
Darkness
Deconvolution; Deconvolution analysis
Depth of Field:
Depth of Focus
Diffraction; Pinhole diffraction
Diaphragm; Iris Diaphragm; Iris
Diffuser; Diffusion; Diffusion Filter
Diffuse Reflection
Digital Noise
Dioptre; Diopter (alternative spellings)
Diptych
Digital Image Sensor; Sensor; Image Sensor;
DSLR; Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera
DNG files; TIFF files; RAW format files; TIFF; NEF; CR2; CRW and others
Emulsion
Ethics (photography)
Extension (software)
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format)
Exposure
Eyeshine; Eyeshine Effect
Fast Lens
Fill-in Flash; Fill-in Light; Fill; Fill Light
Filter, Diffusion (diffusion filter); Diffuser; Diffusion;
Filters: Neutral Density; Graduated Neutral Density
Film Plane; Focal Plane; Film Plane; Image Plane
Fixed focus lens
Flash, off-camera; Off-camera flash;
Flash (on camera); On-board Flash; Pop-up Flash; “Cobra” Flash; Flip-up Flash;
Flash, Zoom flash
F number; F stop
Focal Length
Focal Plane; Plane of focus; Film Plane; Image Plane
Focal Plane Mark
F stop; F number;
Full frame sensor
Gel; Diffusion Gel; Filter Gel; Color Gel; Lighting Gel;
“Glass” (lens)
Golden Hour; Magic Hour
Graduated Neutral Density Filters; Neutral Density Filters;
Grid (light modifier)
Hard Light
High Key lighting/photography
Highlight; Highlights
highlight (blown out or burnt out); Burn out; burnt out; blown out; blow out;
Highlights, Specular
Honeycomb grid (light modifier)
Hot shoe; Hotshoe; Hot-shoe
Hunting, Auto-focus
Image Circle; Circle of Illumination; Circle of Good Definition
Sensor; Image Sensor; Digital Image Sensor
Image stabiliser; Image stabilisation
Definition: Interchangeable photographic lens
IPTC Core & Extension Metadata Standard
Iris; Iris Diaphragm; Diaphragm; Iris
ISO
jpg; jpeg; Full definition coming soon…
Also see: JPG – Important File formats
Kelvin; Kelvin Scale
Key – High Key lighting/photography
Key light
Kicker light; Backlight (also rim lighting)
More definitions coming soon!
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LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
Lens Body
Lens, Fast
Lens; fixed focus lens
Lens – “Glass”
Lens, Macro
Lens Mount; Mount
Lens, Normal
Lens; Photographic Lens; Camera Lens; Photographic objective; Lens
Lens, Prime
Lens, Telephoto
Lens, Zoom Lens
Light; words for light; the vocabulary of light; language of light
Light source
Light – Wrap; To Finish; wrap Light Type
Long Focus Lens
Lossless compression; Lossless format
Lossy compression; lossy format; lossy
Macro Lens
Macro photography; Close-up photography; photomacrography; macrography
macrography; photomacrography; Macro photography; Close-up photography;
Magic Hour; Golden Hour
Metadata
Minimalism
Monopod
Mount (Lens mount)
Mount adapter, Reverse ring
NEF files; TIFF files; RAW format files; TIFF; DNG; NEF; CR2; CRW and others
Negative
Negative space (composition)
Neutral Density Filters; Graduated Neutral Density Filters
Noise (in an image)
Normal Lens
Off-camera flash; Flash, off-camera
Open Face Light; Un-diffused Light; Open Light
Optical Axis
Optical Path
Orphan Work
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Path (optical)
Panning; To pan;
Perspective
Pinhole diffraction; Diffraction;
Photoblog
Photographic aesthetics – Composition
Photographic Bellows
Photographic Lens; Camera Lens; Photographic objective; Lens
Photographic lens, Interchangeable
Photographic Umbrella
Photography
Photography and Ethics
Photomacrography; Macro photography; Close-up photography; macrography
Photomontage
Photomosaic
Plug-in (software)
Polyptych
Portraiture
Positive space
Post-Production; Processing; Post-Processing
Previsualisation; Visualisation;
Prime Lens
Post-Production; Processing; Post-Processing; Post-Production;
RAW format files; TIFF; DNG; NEF; CR2; CRW and others
Record Shot
Red-Eye Effect; Red Eye; Red-Eye
Reflection, Diffuse
Reflection, Specular
Reverse ring mount adapter
Rim light (also kicker or backlight)
Ring Flash
Sensor; Image Sensor; Digital Image Sensor
Sensor Plane; Film Plane; Plane of focus; Focal Plane; Film Plane; Image Plane
Sepia
Shadow
Shoe, Cold (cold shoe)
Shoe, Hot; Hot shoe; Hotshoe; Hot-shoe
Shutter button; shutter release, ‘release’
Shutter Speed (S); Shutter Value (Sv); Time Value (Tv)
Shutter
Silhouette (photographic)
Skin (software)
Snap-in (software)
Snoot
Soft Light
Softbox; soft box; soft-box
Source; Light source
Space, Negative (composition)
Specular Highlights
Specular Reflection
Stabilisation; Image stabiliser; Image stabilisation
Stop (photographic); f number; f stop; Stop
Stopping down
Texture (fine art; photographic composition)
Temperature; Colour temperature
Theme (software)
TIFF files; RAW format files; TIFF; DNG; NEF; CR2; CRW and others
Telephoto Lens
Tripod
Triptych
True Colour (24 bit)
Umbrella, Photographic
Universal Copyright Convention (UCC)
View camera; Bellows camera
VGA (Video Graphics Array)
Vignette; Vignetting
Visualisation; Previsualisation;
Wrap; To Finish; Light Type
Wide Angle Lens; Wide-angle lens; Wide angle
XGA (Extended Video Graphics)
X-ray (digital)
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