Anthony Yanez

Photography
Photography Def.
03/25/20

1. Pixels- Abbreviation for "picture element", a pixel is a small square of colored light that
forms a digital image. It is the smallest unit in a digital image. Think of a pixel as a single
small tile in a large mosaic.
2. Image Resolution- fine detail in an image
3. Megabytes- A million bytes, abbreviated as MB, Mb and sometimes Mbyte. Technically
and more precisely, it refers to 1,048,576 bytes.
4. Megapixels- Refers to a million pixels, and is used in describing the number of pixels that
a digital device's image sensor has.
5. Gigabytes- This refers to one billion bytes of memory
6. Jpeg- 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.
7. Raw- This mode does not compress the photos at all and leaves it unprocessed
8. Tiff- This is a flexible and adaptable file format to handle images within a single file by
including header tags.
9. Png- Pronounced "ping," stands for "Portable Network Graphic" format.
10. White Balance- A digital camera analyzes a scene using its white balance
11. Histogram- A bar chart graph that shows all of the tones in a digital image.
12. Aperture- A circle-shaped opening in a lens (a hole, really) through which light passes to
strike the image sensor or the film.
13. Shutter Speed- The amount of time that a camera's shutter remains open.
14. Depth of Field- The range of distance in a scene that appears to be in focus and will be
reproduced as being acceptably sharp in an image.
15. Aperture Priority- A function or shooting mode of a semi-automatic camera that permits
the photographer to preset the aperture and allow the camera to automatically determine
the correct shutter speed.
16. Shutter Priority- an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the
shutter speed and the camera then automatically sets the correct aperture.
17. Bitmap- A bitmap (or raster graphic) is a digital image composed of a matrix of dots.
18. Exposer- exposure is the amount of light which reaches your camera sensor or film.
19. Watermarking- A watermark is a logo, text, or pattern that is intentionally superimposed
onto another image. Its purpose is to make it more difficult for the original image to be
copied or used without permission.
20. Optic Visual- an impression of a visible object or phenomenon that is not appropriate to
reality, i.e. optical illusion of sight.
21. Digital Zoom- a method of decreasing the apparent angle of view of a digital
photographic or video image.
22. Bracketing- the general technique of taking several shots of the same subject using
different camera settings.
23. Light Meter- a light meter is often used to determine the proper exposure for a
photograph
24. Image Stabilization- a family of techniques that reduce blurring associated with the
motion of a camera or other imaging device during exposure.
Anthony Yanez
Photography
Photography Def.
03/25/20
25. Noise- in photography is the arbitrary alteration of brightness and color in an image.
26. Lag Time- is simply the time between when you press the shutter button and when the
camera actually takes the photo.
27. Hot Shoe- is a connector on a digital camera where the photographer can connect a
variety of devices, such as an external flash unit, an electronic viewfinder, or a
geotagger/GPS receiver unit.
28. Fisheye- is designed for shooting very wide angles, usually 180 degrees.
29. Macro- is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living
organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than
life-size (though macrophotography technically refers to the art of making very large
photographs).
30. Telephoto- is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens
is shorter than the focal length.
31. Wide Angle- a wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller
than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane.
32. DSLR- DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera. It’s a digital camera that has a built-
in mirror (the reflex part of the acronym) so the image you see bounces up to the
viewfinder.
33. Dynamic Range- is the difference between the darkest and lightest tones in an image,
generally pure black and pure white.
34. Digital Negative- is a publicly available archival format for raw files that are generated
by various digital cameras.
35. Exposer Compensation- allows photographers to override exposure settings picked by
camera’s light meter, in order to darken or brighten images before they are captured.