PHOTOGRAPHY WORDS DEFINED

1. Pixels-a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from

which an image is composed
2. Image resolution-the amount of detail (or data) stored for an image
3. Megabyte-data made up by 1,000 Kilobytes
4. Megapixel-make up a digital picture. One megapixel is equivalent to one
million pixels
5. Gigabyte- 1,000 Megabytes
6. Jpeg-a format for compressing image files
7. Raw-A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the
image sensor
8. Tiff-Tagged Image File Format
9. Png-send photos via internet so that the photo doesn't lose quality
10. white balance-camera setting that adjusts for lighting in order make white
objects appear white in photos
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 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 exposure mode that permits the photographer to preset
shutter speed while the camera automatically determines the aperture setting
required for proper exposure
17. Bitmap-a representation in which each item corresponds to one or more bits
of information, especially the information used to control the display of a
computer screen
18. Exposure-when light is permitted to strike a digital camera's image sensor or a
traditional camera's film
19. Watermarking-A digital "signature" for a photograph
20. Optical zoom- true zoom effect unlike a digital camera's digital zoom
21. Digital zoom-Zoom effect in some digital cameras that is not true optical
zoom, but is instead an enlargement of the information from the center of the
CCD or CMOS
22. Bracketing-Refers to taking a series of pictures, at least three, of the same
subject with varying exposures
23. Light meter-An instrument used to measure the amount of light reflected
from or falling on a subject
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24. Image stabilization-A feature in some lenses and camera bodies that
minimizes the effect of camera shake at slow shutter speeds, helping to prevent
image blur
25. Noise-This is the grainy look you find in a digital image caused by image
artifacts
26. Lag time-delay between tasks that have a dependency
27. Hot shoe-an accessory holder on a camera that embodies an electrical
contact so that, for instance, a flash unit can be triggered to go off
28. Fisheye-Describes an extreme wide-angle lens that has an angle of view
exceeding 100 and that renders a scene as highly distorted
29. Macro-Photography of a subject where the image is recorded in the same or
larger than actual size
30. Telephoto-A lens with a narrow angle of view, a longer-than-normal focal
length, the ability to magnify images, and exhibiting relatively shallow depth of
field
31. Wide angle-A lens with an angle of view that is wider than that of a normal
lens, or that of the human eye
32. DSLR-Digital single lens reflex
33. Dynamic range-The range between the lightest and darkest areas of an
image
34. Digital negative-an image specification that provides long term triage of
digital photographs
35. Exposure compensation-used to alter exposure from the value selected
by the camera, making photographs brighter or darker