Photography Terms & Definitions

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a Adobe Process Version AF Area Modes AF Assist Illumination AF Lock AI-Servo Autofocus Ambient Light Angle Of View Anti-Aliasing Filter Aperture Aperture Priority Auto Exposure APS C Camera Artificial Light Aspect Ratio Aspherical Lens Astrophotography Auto Exposure (AE) Auto Servo AF Autofocus (AF)

b Back-Focus Backlight Balanced Composition Blu-Ray Disk Blue Hour Bokeh Bounce Light Bracketing Brenizer Method Broad Lighting Buffer/Buffering Bulb (B Setting) Butterfly Lighting

c Cable Release Camera Twist Candids Card Reader Catchlight Center Weighted Metering Chimping (Photography) Chromatic Aberration Cinemagraph Cinematographer/Cinematography Circle Of Confusion Circular Polarizer Filter CMOS CMYK Color Cast Color Temperature Complementary Colors Composition Compression Continuous Servo AF Contrast Cropping

d Depth Of Field Diffraction Diffused Light Diffuser Digital Zoom Distortion DNG Format Dodging Dolly Zoom Double Exposure DSLR Camera Dynamic Range

e EXIF Exposure Compensation Exposure Exposure Meter or Light Meter Exposure Triangle External Flash

f F Stop Fill Flash Fine Art Photography Fisheye Lens flash exposure compensation Flash Sync Speed Focal Length Focal Length Field Of View Focus Lock Focus Mode Focus Tracking Forced Perspective Photography Foreground Formatting FPS Freelance Photographer Front Curtain Sync Full Frame VS Crop

g Geotagging GIF Graininess Grey Card White Balance

h Hair Light Hard Light HDR Photography Headshot HEIC High ISO High Key Photography Histogram Hyperfocal Distance

i Image Resolution Image Sharpening Image Stabilization Impressionist photography In-Camera HDR Intervalometer Inverse Square Law ISO

j JPEG Juxtaposition

k Kelvin Kelvin White Balance Setting Kicker Light

l Landscape Orientation Lavalier Microphone Lens Hood Live View Loop Lighting Lossless Compression Low Key Lighting

m Macro Photography Manual Exposure Manual Focus Megapixel Memory Card Mini Sessions Mirror Lockup Mirrorless Camera Mixed Lighting Monopod

n Neutral Density Filter Nightscape Nightscape And Star Trails Noise Reduction

o One-Shot Autofocus Optical Zoom Overexposure

p Painting With Light Panning Panorama Photowalk Plate Shot Point and Shoot Camera Portrait Orientation Preset Prime Lens Program Mode

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r RAID Storage Raw File Format Rear Curtain Sync Reflector Refraction Photography Rembrandt Lighting Ring Light Rule of Thirds

s Scrim SEO Sharpness Short Lighting Shutter Count Shutter Drag Shutter Speed Single-Servo Autofocus SmugMug Soft Box Soft Light Soft Pictures Specular Light Steadicam

t Tethered Shooting Time Lapse Tripod

u Ultraviolet Photography Umbrella

v V-Flat Viewfinder

w Whip Pan White Balance

x xD Picture Card

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z Zoom Lens