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 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 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 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 Foreground Formatting FPS Front Curtain Sync Full Frame VS Crop

g Geotagging GIF Graininess Grey Card White Balance

h Hair Light HDR Photography Headshot 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 Lens Hood 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 Noise Reduction

o One-Shot Autofocus Overexposure

p Painting With Light Panning Panorama Point and Shoot Camera Prime Lens Program Mode

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r Raw File Format Rear Curtain Sync Rembrandt Lighting Rule of Thirds

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

t Tethered Shooting

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v V-Flat Viewfinder

w Whip Pan White Balance

x xD Picture Card

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z Zoom Lens