Photography Terms & Definitions

a Adobe Bridge 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 Architectural photography Artificial Light Aspect Ratio Aspherical Lens Astrophotography Asymmetrical Balance Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) Auto Exposure (AE) Auto Servo AF Autofocus (AF)

b Back Button Focus Back Focus Backlight Balanced Composition Bare Bulb Flash Batch Processing Beauty Lighting Birds Eye View Birth Photography Blu-Ray Disk Blue Hour Bokeh Bounce Light Bracketing Brenizer Method Broad Lighting Buffer/Buffering Bulb (B Setting) Burst Mode Butterfly Lighting

c C Stand Cable Release Camera Shake Camera Twist Candid Photography Card Reader Catchlight Center Weighted Metering Chiaroscuro Photography Chimping (Photography) Chromatic Aberration Cinemagraph Cinematographer/Cinematography Circle Of Confusion Circular Polarizer Filter Clamshell Lighting CMOS CMYK Color Cast Color Depth Color Grade Color Temperature Color Theory Complementary Colors Composite Photography Composition Lens Compression Content Aware Fill Continuous Light Continuous Servo AF Contrast Converging Verticals CR2 File Cropping Cross Processing Culling

d Depth Of Field Diffraction Diffused Light Digital Photography Digital Zoom Directional Lighting Distortion DNG Format Dodging Dolly Zoom Double Exposure DSLR Camera Dutch Angle Dynamic Range

e Equivalent Exposure EXIF Data Exposure Compensation Exposure Light Meter Exposure Triangle External Flash

f F Stop Fill Flash Fill Light Film Emulation Fine Art Photography Fisheye Lens Flash Diffuser flash exposure compensation Flash Snoot Flash Sync Speed Flash Zoom Flat Light Focal Length Focal Length Field Of View Focus Lock Focus Mode Focus Stacking Focus Tracking Forced Perspective Photography Foreground Foreshortening Formatting FPS Fractal Filters Framing Freelance Photographer Front Curtain Sync Fujicolor Pro

g Geotagging Ghosting GIF Graduated Neutral Density Filter Graininess Grey Card White Balance Grid Photography

h Hair Light Hard Light HDR Photography Headshot Photography HEIC High ISO High Key Photography High Speed Sync (HSS) Histogram Hot Shoe Flash Hyper lapse Hyperfocal Distance

i Image Resolution Image Sharpening Image Stabilization Impressionist photography In-Camera HDR In-Camera Processing Intervalometer Inverse Square Law IPS (In Person Sales) ISO

j Jib JPEG Juxtaposition

k Kelvin Kelvin White Balance Setting Keystoning Kicker Light Kodak Portra 800

l Landscape Orientation Lavalier Microphone Layer Mask Lens Hood Lens Whacking Lighting Gobos Liquify Tool Live View Long Exposure Loop Lighting Lossless Compression Low Key Lighting Low Light Luminosity Mask

m Macro Photography Manual Exposure Manual Focus Matte Box Megapixel Memory Card Metering Mode Mini Sessions Minimalist Photography Mirror Lockup Mirrorless Camera Mixed Lighting Monopod Motion Blur

n Neutral Density Filter Nightscape Noise Reduction Nondestructive Editing

o OCF Photography One-Shot Autofocus Optical Zoom Overexposure

p Painting With Light Pancake Lens Panning Panorama Photo Essay Photowalk Pinhole Camera Plate Shot PNG Point and Shoot Camera Polarizing Filter Portrait Orientation Preset Prime Lens Program Mode

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

s Scrim SEO Sharpness Short Lighting Shot List Shutter Count Shutter Drag Shutter Speed Single-Servo Autofocus SmugMug Soft Light Soft Pictures Softbox Specular Light Speedlight Split Lighting Sports mode Spot Metering Star Trails Steadicam Still Life Photography Strobe

t Tethered Shooting Time Lapse Tripod

u Ultraviolet Photography Umbrella

v V-Flat Vanishing Point Viewfinder Visual Weight

w Watermark Whip Pan White Balance Work For Hire

x xD Picture Card XMP File

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z Zone Focusing Zoom Lens

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