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Photography Basics
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1. Or - electronic noise. This is the grainy look you find in a digital image caused by image artifacts. It is usually noticeable in shadow areas - and generally produced when shooting in low light. Noise is almost always unwanted and unattractive.
Reciprocal Rule
Through-the-Lens
Noise
Butterfly Lighting
2. Occurs when an image editing program is used to change an image's size. Increasing an image's size requires the addition of new pixels and decreasing size removes pixels.
Gray Card
ISO
Ambient Light
Resampling
3. Exchangeable Image File Format. Data produced by a digital camera that becomes attached to each image made by the camera - including make & model of camera - date & time - image format (e.g. jpeg - tiff - etc.)and dimensions - color & exposure modes
EXIF
Lens Hood
Vignetting
FPS
4. Lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the film format or of a digital camera's image sensor. A scene viewed through a normal lens appears to have the same perspective as if it was being viewed 'normally' without a lens - jus
Rule of Thirds
Normal Lens
Golden Hour
Bokeh
5. When the lens is focused on infinity - the nearest point to the camera that is considered acceptably sharp is the Hyperfocal point. By focusing on the hyperfocal point - everything beyond it to infinity remains in acceptable focus - and objects halfw
Low Key
Kelvin
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Noise
6. Existing light surrounding a subject; the light that is illuminating a scene without any additional light supplied by the photographer. This is also called 'available light'.
Butterfly Lighting
Bokeh
PDF
Ambient Light
7. A lens in which focal length is variable. Elements inside a zoom lens shift their positions - enabling the lens to change its focal length - in effect - providing one lens that has many focal lengths. (Also called a 'Variable focus lens.')
Bulb 'B' setting
Gray Card
Vignetting
Zoom Lens
8. Sometimes called camera raw - raw format - raw image format and raw. A digital image storage format that contains the most information possible from a camera's sensor. RAW data ( a RAW image file) is unprocessed. Some folks consider it to be the digi
Raw Image
DSLR
Aperture Priority
Lossless
9. Also known as the 'Kodak neutral test card -' a gray card is an 8' X 10' (20 cm by 25.5 cm) card - about 1/8' thick - that is uniformly gray on one side. The gray side reflects precisely 18% of the white light that strikes it (corresponding to the ca
Noise
RGB
Gray Card
Lossy
10. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Low Key
CMYK
Rembrandt Lighting
Bokeh
11. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
TIFF
RGB
Megabyte
Noise
12. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Gray Card
Low Key
Lossy
Interpolation
13. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Megabyte
Painting with Light
14. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
f-stop
Vignetting
Normal Lens
Golden Hour
15. Occurs when the photographer incrementally lights an otherwise darkened scene using a handheld flashlight or other small light source while the shutter remains open during a time exposure. The light is added to the scene in the manner of an artist us
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Painting with Light
Gray Card
Low Key
16. A clear - neutral filter that absorbs ultraviolet radiation - with no effect on visible colors. The skylight filter is a UV filter with a pale rose tinge to it.
Raw Image
UV Filter
GIF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
17. (Graphics Interchange Format) is a small image file format that supports transparency and is constrained to a maximum of 256 colors - generally making it a poor choice for your digital images. When it was created - most computer video cards were able
GIF
Normal Lens
Bokeh
Model Release
18. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Vignetting
Reciprocal Rule
Megapixel
Vignetting
19. Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh is different from sharpness. Sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus. Bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus. Bokeh describes the appearance - or 'feel
Painting with Light
Ambient Light
Vignetting
Bokeh
20. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
TIFF
Depth of Field
Monochrome
21. A million bytes - abbreviated as MB - Mb and sometimes Mbyte. Technically and more precisely - it refers to 1 -048 -576 bytes. Digital images are often referred to in terms of their 'size in Mb'.
PSD
Golden Hour
Butterfly Lighting
Megabyte
22. A million bytes - abbreviated as MB - Mb and sometimes Mbyte. Technically and more precisely - it refers to 1 -048 -576 bytes. Digital images are often referred to in terms of their 'size in Mb'.
Raw Image
Zoom Lens
Through-the-Lens
Megabyte
23. The time an hour or less before the sun goes down and around fifteen minutes after the sun has set. Sunlight is usually warmer and more complimentary to skin tones at this time - and the angle of the light can provide depth to portraits and landscape
UV Filter
Interpolation
f-stop
Golden Hour
24. A fall-off in brightness at the edges of an image - slide - or print. Can be caused by poor lens design - using a lens hood not matched to the lens - or attaching too many filters to the front of the lens. It can also be applied after the image is ta
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Painting with Light
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Vignetting
25. Occurs when saving a digital image file in a format that does not result in a loss of data. A TIFF and PSD documents are examples of lossless image formats
Depth of Field
Normal Lens
High Key
Lossless
26. Occurs when the photographer incrementally lights an otherwise darkened scene using a handheld flashlight or other small light source while the shutter remains open during a time exposure. The light is added to the scene in the manner of an artist us
Painting with Light
ISO
Rule of Thirds
Resampling
27. When the lens is focused on infinity - the nearest point to the camera that is considered acceptably sharp is the Hyperfocal point. By focusing on the hyperfocal point - everything beyond it to infinity remains in acceptable focus - and objects halfw
Ambient Light
EXIF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
f-stop
28. The range of distance in a scene that appears to be in focus and will be reproduced as being acceptably sharp in an image. Depth of field is controlled by the lens aperture - and extends for a distance in front of and behind the point on which the le
Panning
Ambient Light
Resampling
Depth of Field
29. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Graininess
PDF
Rembrandt Lighting
Complimentary Color
30. Technique that involves taking a picture while moving the camera at a relatively slow shutter speed. It is almost always used when tracking a moving object - such as a race car - as it travels across the film plane. When properly carried out - the ob
Panning
Bulb 'B' setting
TIFF
JPEG (also known as JPG)
31. An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group that describes an image file format standard in which the size of the file is reduced by compressing it. JPEG - with its 16.7 million colors - is well suited to compressing photographic images. A 'JPEG'
Rembrandt Lighting
High Key
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Zoom Lens
32. Film speed or sensitivity is designated by a single - almost universally-accepted common system developed by the International Organization for Standardization which uses the initials 'ISO' before the film-speed number or digital camera's sensitivity
Model Release
ISO
Rembrandt Lighting
Through-the-Lens
33. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Low Key
High Key
Golden Hour
CMYK
34. Or - electronic noise. This is the grainy look you find in a digital image caused by image artifacts. It is usually noticeable in shadow areas - and generally produced when shooting in low light. Noise is almost always unwanted and unattractive.
High Key
Resampling
Megabyte
Noise
35. A shutter speed dial setting that indicates that the shutter will remain open as long as the release button is depressed - also known as the 'B setting ' or 'Bulb' setting. The 'B' setting is used for time exposures.
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36. A composition rule that divides the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically - like a tic-tac toe grid placed over the picture on a television set. Almost all of the important information included in every shot is located at one of the four int
GIF
Noise
Rule of Thirds
Ambient Light
37. Digital single lens reflex camera
RGB
CMYK
Complimentary Color
DSLR
38. (Graphics Interchange Format) is a small image file format that supports transparency and is constrained to a maximum of 256 colors - generally making it a poor choice for your digital images. When it was created - most computer video cards were able
Golden Hour
Painting with Light
GIF
Rembrandt Lighting
39. A fall-off in brightness at the edges of an image - slide - or print. Can be caused by poor lens design - using a lens hood not matched to the lens - or attaching too many filters to the front of the lens. It can also be applied after the image is ta
Aperture Priority
Vignetting
Rembrandt Lighting
PDF
40. The visible light spectrum is scientifically described in terms of color temperature - and is measured in degrees Kelvin (K). The range for Kelvin on a pro digital camera is approximately 2000-10000.. These K settings are the scientific numbers behin
Aperture Priority
Kelvin
Noise
Depth of Field
41. Occurs when saving a digital image file in a format that does not result in a loss of data. A TIFF and PSD documents are examples of lossless image formats
High Key
Monochrome
Lossless
Resampling
42. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Zoom Lens
Interpolation
Rule of Thirds
High Key
43. A composition rule that divides the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically - like a tic-tac toe grid placed over the picture on a television set. Almost all of the important information included in every shot is located at one of the four int
Rule of Thirds
Bokeh
Complimentary Color
Reflector
44. A lens with the ability to focus from infinity to extremely closely - allowing it to capture images of tiny objects in frame-filling - larger-than-life sizes.
Graininess
Macro Lens
Kelvin
Lossy
45. Graininess occurs when clumps of individual grains are large and irregularly spaced out in the negative. They are visible to the naked eye in the finished print - particularly enlargements - as sand-like particles. When this occurs - the picture appe
Golden Hour
Lossless
Graininess
Model Release
46. An image file type created in Adobe PhotoShop. It is uncompressed and contains data on editing that is done to the image. A PSD file is essentially PhotoShop's version of a TIFF file. It lets you save a picture you are working on with its layers - ch
Vignetting
ISO
PSD
Normal Lens
47. A contract in which a model consents to the use of his or her images by the photographer or a third party. Sometimes referred to simply as a 'release.'
RGB
Lens Hood
UV Filter
Model Release
48. The visible light spectrum is scientifically described in terms of color temperature - and is measured in degrees Kelvin (K). The range for Kelvin on a pro digital camera is approximately 2000-10000.. These K settings are the scientific numbers behin
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Butterfly Lighting
Kelvin
Megapixel
49. An accessory that attaches as a collar to the front of a lens to prevent stray light from striking the surface of the lens - causing flare
Lens Hood
CMYK
Butterfly Lighting
Macro Lens
50. An accessory that attaches as a collar to the front of a lens to prevent stray light from striking the surface of the lens - causing flare
Rule of Thirds
Golden Hour
Bulb 'B' setting
Lens Hood