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 Astrophotography Aspect Ratio Aspherical Lens Auto Exposure (AE) Auto Servo AF Autofocus (AF)

b Back-Focus Backlight Balanced Composition Blu-Ray Disk 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 Chromatic Aberration Cinematographer/Cinematography Circle Of Confusion Circular Polarizer Filter CMOS CMYK Color Cast Color Temperature Composition Compression Continuous Servo AF Contrast Cropping

d Depth Of Field Diffuser Distortion Dodging Double Exposure Dynamic Range

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

f F/ Number or F/ Stop Fisheye Lens Flash Sync Speed kFocal Length Focus Tracking Foreground Formatting FPS Front Curtain Sync

g Geotagging Graininess

h Hair Light HDR Photography High ISO High Key Photography Histogram Hyperfocal Distance

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

j JPEG

k Kelvin Kelvin White Balance Setting Kicker Light

l Live View Loop Lighting Lossless Compression Low Key Lighting

m Macro Photography Manual Exposure Manual Focus Megapixel Mirror Lockup Mixed Lighting Monopod

n Neutral Density Filter Nightscape Nightscape And Star Trails

o One-Shot Autofocus Overexposure

p Painting With Light Panning Panorama Prime Lens

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r Raw File Format Rear Curtain Sync Rule of Thirds

s Sharpness Short Lighting Shutter Drag Shutter Speed Single-Servo Autofocus

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v Viewfinder

w Whip Pan White Balance

x xD Picture Card

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z Zoom Lens