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
Astrophotography
Aspect Ratio
Aspherical Lens
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
Diffuser
Digital Zoom
Distortion
DNG Format
Dodging
Dolly Zoom
Double Exposure
DSLR Camera
Dynamic Range
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
Front Curtain Sync
Full Frame VS Crop
i
Image Resolution
Image Sharpening
Image Stabilization
Impressionist photography
In-Camera HDR
Intervalometer
Inverse Square Law
ISO
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
p
Painting With Light
Panning
Panorama
Photowalk
Plate Shot
Point and Shoot Camera
Portrait Orientation
Preset
Prime Lens
Program Mode
q
r
RAID Storage
Raw File Format
Rear Curtain Sync
Reflector
Refraction Photography
Rembrandt Lighting
Rule of Thirds
s
Scrim
SEO
Sharpness
Short Lighting
Shutter Count
Shutter Drag
Shutter Speed
Single-Servo Autofocus
Soft Box
Soft Pictures
Steadicam
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