Vocab Padlet by Jordi Roberts

Colour Fringing

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-21 18:59:01 UTC

Color fringing, is a color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects in a photograph. Often, it appears along metallic surfaces or where there's a high contrast between light and dark objects, such as a black wall in front of a bright blue sky.

Posterization

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-21 18:59:07 UTC

Posterization is a process in photograph development which converts normal photographs into an image consisting of distinct, but flat, areas of different tones or colors.

Aliasing (Moire pattern)

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-21 18:59:23 UTC

Aliasing is an effect that can show up in an image with a very fine edge or fine detail. It is manifested as a smooth edge becoming jagged. Moiré, the most common form of aliasing in digital photography, is manifested as a very fine pattern that becomes highly distorted in both its pattern and color.

JPEG Artifacts

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-21 18:59:33 UTC

JPEG artifacts are caused by compression when an image is saved in the . jpg format. Each time an image is saved in this format it is compressed and “non-essential” data is discarded. The result of compression is that an image can suffer from blockiness, mosquito noise (around edges) and color degradation.

Blooming

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-21 18:59:43 UTC

Blooming is the optical effect where light from a bright source (such as a glint) appears to leak into surrounding objects. The Bloom and Lens Flares image effect adds bloom and also automatically generates lens flares in a highly efficient way.

Image sensor

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-24 17:43:02 UTC

An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they pass through or reflect off objects) into signals, small bursts of current that convey the information.

APS-C

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-24 17:43:07 UTC

Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 31.15 mm field diameter.

Ful frame

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-24 17:43:16 UTC

A full-frame camera is a camera with a full-frame sensor. This is an image sensor that's the same size as the sensor of an analog camera. The biggest advantage of a full-frame camera is that it has no crop factor. Crop factor means that the image is cut off because the sensor is too small to capture the entire image.

Lens crop factor

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-24 17:43:22 UTC

Crop factor is a term that describes the difference between your camera's sensor size and a traditional 35mm film frame. It's mainly used as a way of comparing lens focal lengths when fitted to different cameras, which is more important than it sounds.

Byte

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-24 17:43:28 UTC

A Byte is 8 Bits, eight 0s/1s. A Byte has 8 slots for 2 units: So think of 1 Byte as 2 to the 8th power, can represent 256 distinct values. That is why we have Kilo, Mega and Giga to refer to much larger file sizes. • Kilo- 1024 Bytes. • Mega- 1024 Kilobytes.

Cubism

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-31 17:44:47 UTC

Cubism rejected traditional modes of representation, these included emulating nature, creating a three dimensional picture plane using perspective and foreshortening and other inherited modelling techniques. The Cubist's in fact wanted to accentuate the two-dimensionality of the canvas.

Minimalism

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-31 17:45:25 UTC

Like other forms of minimalist art, minimalist photography is about stripping a subject down to its essence. Create photos that cut through the clutter with clean lines, empty spaces and only the essential elements.

Pop art

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-31 17:45:45 UTC

Pop Art often appropriates imagery and techniques from other art forms found in popular and commercial culture. Mixed media and collage were popular formats amongst Pop Art artists, who often used a mixture of painting, photography, and collage in a single artwork. Pop Art can be fun and witty or even gimmicky.

Avant-Garde

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-31 17:46:08 UTC

Avant-garde photography is defined as creating images where the artist is being innovative and experimental in an aspect of her/his art. The avant-garde approach in photography rejects the pure image or the aesthetic views.

Surrealism

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-08-31 17:46:31 UTC

Surreal photography represents unconscious ideas, dreams, and emotions. Examples of surreal photography can be seen in the work of contemporary photographers like Brooke Shaden and Kyle Thompson. They work to create dreamlike tableaux that use modern methods to continue the surrealist tradition.

Appropriation

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-07 17:43:26 UTC

Appropriation in art and art history refers to the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original.

Double exposure

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-07 17:43:33 UTC

Double exposure photography is a technique that layers two different exposures on a single image, combining two photographs into one. Double exposure creates a surreal feeling for your photos and the two photographs can work together to convey deep meaning or symbolism.

Still life photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-07 17:43:39 UTC

Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. Similar to still life painting, it is the application of photography to the still life artistic style.

Commercial photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-07 17:43:46 UTC

Commercial photography is a genre that encompasses any photos used for a business or publication. “It's photography that helps sell things,” says photographer Andrew Bennett.

Aerial photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-07 17:43:54 UTC

Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms. When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial videography.

Histogram

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-14 17:42:55 UTC

A histogram is a graph that shows the frequency of numerical data using rectangles. The height of a rectangle (the vertical axis) represents the distribution frequency of a variable (the amount, or how often that variable appears).

Anti-Art

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-14 17:43:02 UTC

Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Somewhat paradoxically, anti-art tends to conduct this questioning and rejection from the vantage point of art.

Assemblage

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-14 17:43:07 UTC

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially.

ND Filters

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-14 17:43:13 UTC

In photography and optics, a neutral-density filter, or ND filter, is a filter that reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition.

Cross processing

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-14 17:43:19 UTC

Cross Processing is intentionally processing film in the wrong chemicals, creating interesting and unpredictable color shifts and increased contrast. For example, cross processing would be shooting a roll of color slide film or E6 and developing it as if it were color negative film or C41 (or visa versa).

Honeycomb grid

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-22 18:53:09 UTC

The honeycomb grid is a tight structure of a similar shape to the honeycomb made by honey bees. It's affixed to the front of a studio strobe. Or it can be fixed to an off-camera flash. The light shines through the grid and creates a tight beam of light. The aim is to create a focused beam with little diffusion.

Beauty dish

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-22 18:53:30 UTC

A beauty dish is a photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point. The light created is between that of a direct flash and a softbox, giving the image a wrapped, contrasted look, which adds a more dramatic effect.

Snoot

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-22 18:53:50 UTC

A snoot is a tube or similar object that fits over a light used in theatrical lighting or photography, to control the direction and radius of the light beam.

Soft box

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-22 18:54:10 UTC

A softbox is a light modifier that confines light from an artificial source into a wire framed box and releases it through a layer of diffusion. Softboxes are commonly used in photography as a soft source of light that minimizes harsh shadows.

Monolight

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-22 18:54:31 UTC

A monolight is a self-contained photographic flash lighting unit typically found in studios. Bowens introduced the first in 1963. Each monolight has its own independent power source. It does not depend on a centralized power supply as a "pack and head" system does.

Catch lights

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-28 17:42:44 UTC

A catchlight is the light reflected in a subject's eye, the glimmer that comes from an external light source. Also known as an "eye light," it's the highlight reflected off the surface of the eye.

Curves (Photoshop)

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-28 17:42:50 UTC

The Curves tool is similar to levels, but it gives you more power to control shadows, highlights, and midtones separately. Because it's a more advanced tool, you'll need to be careful when using it to adjust your images. In the example below, you can see an image before adjusting curves.

Levels (Photoshop)

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-28 17:43:01 UTC

Levels is a tool in Photoshop and other image editing programs which can move and stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram.

Ring light

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-28 17:43:20 UTC

A circular electronic flash that surrounds a camera lens, used esp. for even illumination in closeup photography.

Tilt-shift photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-09-28 17:43:32 UTC

Tilt–shift photography is the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens with respect to the film or image sensor on cameras.

Ambrotype

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-05 17:42:29 UTC

A positive photograph on glass made using the wet-collodion process, often hand-tinted and mounted in a hinged case.

Polariod Transfer

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-05 17:42:40 UTC

In a Polaroid transfer, the image is peeled apart prematurely and the negative is placed down on a desired material. A roller is sometimes used to ensure the negative is laying down flat on the material. After a certain amount of time, the negative is peeled back.

Photogravure

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-05 17:42:52 UTC

Photogravures are photographs etched into copper and printed traditionally with ink. Their rich velvety matte surface, deep shadows, delicate half tones, and luminous highlights make photogravures some of the most beautiful and tactile images ever printed.

Cyanotype

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-05 17:42:58 UTC

Cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that involves laying an object on paper coated with a solution of iron salts before exposing it to UV light and washing with water to create stunning white and Prussian blue images.

The chlorophyll process

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-05 17:43:36 UTC

The chlorophyll process is an organic alternative photography process akin to the anthotype process. However, instead of printing on the crushed extract of fruit or plant matter, the prints are bleached by sunlight directly onto the surface of leaves using a positive.

Tintype

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-12 17:44:39 UTC

The photographic emulsion was applied directly to a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel, which produced a unique positive image.

Static

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-12 17:44:45 UTC

Locked off and stable. Cleanly conveys information. Allows viewer to study the frame. Movement in the frame, not movement of the frame.

Visual weight

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-12 17:44:56 UTC

The visual weight in an image is defined as the visual force that appears due to the contrast of light among the visual elements that compound it. The visual weight is a visual force which prevails in the image balance.

Render

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-12 17:45:00 UTC

Rendering or image synthesis is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model by means of a computer program. The resulting image is referred to as the render.

Illusion of space

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-12 17:45:09 UTC

We use perspective to create the illusion of space and depth, pictured on a flat surface (like a sheet of paper, or a canvas, or a wall). When we look at an image that uses perspective, our eyes seem to see deep into the distance.

Split lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:12 UTC

Split lighting is a lighting technique that lights up half of a subject's face while leaving the other half in a shadow, essentially “splitting” the face. This splitting effect is achieved by a light source that is perpendicular to the subject illuminating directly from one specific side.

Rembrandt lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:18 UTC

Rembrandt lighting is a technique utilizing one light and one reflector or two separate lights. It's a popular technique because it creates images that look both dramatic yet natural.

Loop lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:24 UTC

Loop lighting is a lighting pattern that creates a circular shadow on the subject's face just under the nose. You can achieve this by placing the key light 45 degrees to the side of the subject and raising it just above their eye line.

Butterfly lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:32 UTC

Butterfly lighting is a portrait lighting pattern where the key light is placed above and directly centered with a subject's face. This creates a shadow under the nose that resembles a butterfly.

Broad lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:40 UTC

Broad lighting is a type of lighting photographers use primarily for portrait photography. In this lighting technique, light illuminates the broad side of the subject's face in front of the camera.

Short lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-19 17:44:46 UTC

Short lighting is a lighting technique used primarily in portrait photography in which the far side of a subject's face is lit relative to the camera. This leaves the near side of the face darker or entirely shadowed.

Vortograph

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-26 17:43:18 UTC

The first completely abstract kind of photograph, composed of kaleidoscopic repetitions of forms achieved by photographing objects through a triangular arrangement of three mirrors.

Scanography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-26 17:43:26 UTC

Scanography (also spelled scannography), more commonly referred to as scanner photography, is the process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed "photo" scanner with a CCD (charge-coupled device) array capturing device.

Typology Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-26 17:43:35 UTC

A photographic typology is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work, that shares a high level of consistency. This consistency is usually found within the subjects, environment, photographic process, and presentation or direction of the subject.

New Topographics

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-26 17:43:44 UTC

New topographics was a term coined by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz) whose pictures had a similar banal aesthetic, in that they were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape.

Solargraphy

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-10-26 17:43:50 UTC

Solargraphy (uncountable) (photography) the practice of creating solargraphs; creating photographs of the path of the Sun across the sky using a pinhole camera and exposure periods measured in days or months.

Kelvin (Scale)

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-02 17:42:02 UTC

When you “shoot in Kelvin”, you are manually adjusting the camera's white balance to match that of the Kelvin temperature in the room. By aligning these temperatures, you can to produce the most accurate white balance for the image in-camera.

Subtractive Lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-02 17:42:13 UTC

Subtractive lighting is just what the names implies: removing light or, in essence, creating shadows to achieve a more dimensional portrait.

Lighting ratio

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-02 17:42:18 UTC

The term is used to describe the difference in intensity between the shadow and highlight sides of the face. It is usually expressed numerically—3:1, for example, means that the highlight side of the face is three times brighter than the shadow side. In this image by Marcus Bell you have two lighting ratios present.

ICC Profiles

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-02 17:42:26 UTC

So what is ICC Profile? According to the International Color Consortium (ICC,) ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device. The profiles typically describe the color attributes of a particular device by defining the mapping between the device source and a profile connection space.

Flat Lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-02 17:42:33 UTC

Flat lighting is a style of even lighting that produces very little depth and contrast. Flat lighting is generally not considered a good thing but there are reasons why it may be preferable in a specific context. A scene can wind up with flat light intentionally or by accident.

Chimping

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-09 18:44:40 UTC

Chimping is a colloquial term used in digital photography to describe the habit of checking every photo on the camera display (LCD) immediately after capture.

Nifty Fifty

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-09 18:44:48 UTC

What is a Nifty Fifty Lens? The nifty fifty is a 50mm prime lens with autofocus that is lightweight, built from inexpensive materials, and has a fast maximum aperture. The 50mm focal length is often referred to as a “standard view” as its field of view is very close to what the eye sees naturally.

Togs

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-09 18:44:53 UTC

A tog is short for a photographer.

Digital Lasagna

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-09 18:45:01 UTC

When a photoshop file has hundreds of unnamed layers.

Muddy

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-09 18:45:08 UTC

Appearance of print in which tone reproduction is low in contrast, lacking deep blacks or brilliant whites.

Dust Bunnies

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-16 18:43:29 UTC

Dust bunnies are those dust points on the camera's sensor. They are hard to get rid of, and they create marks on your digital images.

Clipping [shadowing/highlights]

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-16 18:43:48 UTC

Clipping occurs when the tonal range of an image is pushed beyond the limits of the medium (either the display or the print), causing a loss of detail in the highlights or shadows. This can lead to washed-out highlights, blocked-up shadows, or both.

Fill light

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-16 18:43:53 UTC

A fill light is a style of lighting which is often used in theatre and film as well as in photography. Often used as part of a three point lighting set up, fill lighting is utilized in order to light up the shadowed parts of your setting - this creates less contrast where you do not want it.

Key Light

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-16 18:43:58 UTC

The key light is the first and usually most important light that a photographer, cinematographer, lighting cameraman, or other scene composer will use in a lighting setup. The purpose of the key light is to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.

Tethering

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-16 18:44:02 UTC

In photography, tethered shooting is the process of capturing images while your camera is connected to your computer, which allows your photos to instantly upload to the computer. The benefit of tethered shooting is that it allows you to check images on a large screen while you're shooting.

Infrared Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-30 18:43:59 UTC

photography using film with an emulsion that is sensitive to infrared light, enabling it to be used in misty weather, in darkened interiors, or at night. It has applications in aerial surveys, the detection of forgeries, etc.

Composite Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-30 18:45:18 UTC

Composite photography is the use or combination of two or more different images to create a new one. Although it sounds simple, the creation of a new image using the composite method is a process that can take hours — it's something that requires constant practice in order to create believable compositions.

Lifestyle Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-30 18:45:43 UTC

Lifestyle photography ideas focus on portraying a “slice of life.” A lifestyle photography session will usually involve a family — especially the children — performing typical family activities in an interesting way.

Urban Exploration Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-30 18:46:12 UTC

Urbex is a subfield of architecture photography, which takes many different forms. Mostly, it is about exploring the urban habitat and the countless exciting places within it. This usually involves entering abandoned buildings such as old factories, derelict residences or other urban ruins.

Astrophotography

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-11-30 18:46:41 UTC

the use of photography in astronomy; the photographing of celestial objects and phenomena.

Neutral density filters

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-12-07 18:43:00 UTC

In photography and optics, a neutral-density filter, or ND filter, is a filter that reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition.

Chromatic aberration

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-12-07 18:43:13 UTC

Chromatic aberration, also known as color fringing, is a color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects in a photograph. Often, it appears along metallic surfaces or where there's a high contrast between light and dark objects, such as a black wall in front of a bright blue sky.

CPL Filters

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-12-07 18:43:19 UTC

A CPL filter is a circular polarizer lens filter, one of the most commonly used camera lens filters. It helps to reduce or eliminate the effects of glare and reflections. It comprises two pieces of the polarizing film, which are mounted at perpendicular angles to each other.

Mirrorless cameras

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-12-07 18:43:26 UTC

As the name suggests, mirrorless cameras capture images without the use of a mirror in the camera body. This is different from DSLR cameras, which reflect images into viewfinders via mirrors. Instead, mirrorless cameras often use electronic viewfinders (EVF) to display images digitally.

Watermark

jordanroberts2187 — 2023-12-07 18:43:30 UTC

A watermark is an image, overlay, or text that's placed over a digital asset. Usually, the image will be monochromatic and transparent, to enable others to still view the asset. It's important to secure your assets with watermarks in order to protect content and claim ownership.

Clamshell lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-11 18:44:46 UTC

Clamshell lighting involves placing a second light below the subject, softening the shadows. This produces a gentler, more soothing effect, so it's often seen in conventional headshot photography or applications with far less drama.

Badger lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-11 18:44:53 UTC

This is a creative two-light setup that results in dramatic images. It is also called badger lighting because the shadows and light produce a pattern that is similar to the markings on a badger's face.

High key lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-11 18:45:00 UTC

High key lighting is a lighting style that results in a brightly lit frame with soft lighting, minimal shadows, and low contrast. In photography, film, and television, this lighting style uses minimal shadows with a majority of the frame composed of highlights.

Low key lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-11 18:45:06 UTC

Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for film and photography that has an emphasis on shadows. The style is achieved by using hard source lighting within the scene. Unlike high key lighting, low-key lighting looks to increase the contrast of the subject and the environment.

Hard key lighting

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-11 18:45:15 UTC

The high-contrast nature of hard light creates a strong sense of drama and gives your photos an edgy, gritty look. Photographers use a hard light source to make their subjects appear strong and serious. It's also used to give a raw, hard-edged feel to moments in film noir, drama, and action movies.

Diffraction

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-18 18:44:26 UTC

The process by which a beam of light or other system of waves is spread out as a result of passing through a narrow aperture or across an edge, typically accompanied by interference between the wave forms produced.

IPS Monitors

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-18 18:45:14 UTC

IPS monitors or “In-Plane Switching” monitors, leverage liquid crystals aligned in parallel to produce rich colors. IPS panels are defined by the shifting patterns of their liquid crystals. These monitors were designed to overcome the limitations of TN panels.

Anamorphic lens

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-18 18:45:40 UTC

Anamorphic lenses are specialty tools which affect how images get projected onto the camera sensor. They were primarily created so that a wider range of aspect ratios could fit within a standard film frame, but since then, cinematographers have become accustomed to their unique look.

ATGNI

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-18 18:46:03 UTC

ATGNI. This acronym means All The Gear, No Idea. It refers to people who are constantly upgrading their equipment to the latest camera bodies, lenses, and tripods, yet have no idea how to properly use any of them.

Gradation

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-18 18:48:28 UTC

In the visual arts, gradation is the technique of gradually transitioning from one hue to another, or from one shade to another, or one texture to another. Space, distance, atmosphere, volume, and curved or rounded forms are some of the visual effects created with gradation.

Focus Stacking

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-25 18:45:46 UTC

Focus stacking is a technique designed to achieve a deep depth of field by blending (or stacking) several images together. Each stacked shot is focused in a different spot, so the combined depth of field is deeper than the depth of field produced by any of the individual images.

Sunny 16 Rule

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-25 18:46:18 UTC

Sunny 16 says that on a sunny day, you should set your aperture to F16 and your shutter speed to the reciprocal of your film speed, or as close to it as you can get. So if you're shooting 100 ASA film, set F16 and 1/90 or 1/125 sec.

Alternative photo processes

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-25 18:47:06 UTC

The term alternative process refers to any non-traditional or non-commercial photographic printing process. Currently, the standard analog photographic printing process for black-and-white photographs is the gelatin silver process.

The Decisive Moment

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-25 18:47:33 UTC

The concept of the “decisive moment” implies that the photographer must be able to anticipate an important moment within the constant flow of life, and capture it in a fraction of a second. Therefore, the key thing about the “decisive moment” is the ability to anticipate.

Grip & Rip [Spray & Pray]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-01-25 18:48:19 UTC

It means to have your camera set up in a fast burst mode, shooting several photos per second, and then to simply hold down the shutter button, hoping to capture the perfect image within the sequence.

Toy Cameras

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-01 18:44:30 UTC

A toy camera is an inexpensive camera made almost entirely out of plastic, including the lens. They are usually made in China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, or the former Soviet Union.

The "Snapshot Aesthetic"

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-01 18:44:44 UTC

A subgenre of fine art photography that emphasizes ordinary life as its subject matter and employs an appearance that is between between staged and candid snapshots.

The "Sabattier Effect"

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-01 18:45:36 UTC

A partial reversal of tones in a photograph due to exposure to light during development, resulting in an image with a combination of normal and reversed polarity.

Pictorialism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-01 18:45:43 UTC

Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.

Femto photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-01 18:45:50 UTC

Femto-photography is a technique for recording the propagation of ultrashort pulses of light through a scene at a very high speed (up to 10¹³ frames per second).

Circular polarizer

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-15 18:42:16 UTC

A circular polarizing filter absorbs rays of sunlight, by rotating the ring you control the effect. A Circular Polarizer is used on cameras with beam splitting metering systems commonly found on auto focus SLR's (for most 35mm auto-focus cameras see your camera manual).

Combination printing [film]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-15 18:42:32 UTC

Combination printing is a photographic technique of using the negatives of two or more images in conjunction with one another to create a single image. Henry Peach Robinson's When the Day's Work is Done, 1877. A combination print made from six different negatives.

Contre-jour

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-15 18:42:40 UTC

Contre-jour (French for 'against daylight') is a photographic technique in which the camera is pointing directly toward a source of light, as well as an equivalent technique of painting.

Duotone [printing method]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-15 18:42:53 UTC

Duotone (sometimes also known as Duplex) is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image.

Giclee [print]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-15 18:43:04 UTC

Giclee is a French term meaning “to spray”, referring to how an inkjet printer works and how giclee prints are usually produced. These large format inkjet printers use small spraying devices that can both match color and apply ink precisely, giving artists a high-quality print of their original art explains ThoughtCo.

Barn doors [studio light accessory]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-22 18:45:12 UTC

Barn doors are light modifiers that shape and direct light. They are flexible to use and can create focused light. They also make a variety of shapes. Barn doors are fixed onto the front of studio or theatre lights. They have four hinged doors around the light source.

Stop down [Aperture lingo]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-22 18:45:49 UTC

When you hear photographers say they are "stopping down", it means they are using a narrower aperture opening, for example from f8 to f11, or f11 to f16. This renders everything sharp from near-to-far, hence the phrase "great depth of field".

Open up [Aperture lingo]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-22 18:46:22 UTC

When taking photographs to 'open up' or 'opening up' refers to the practice of allowing more light to be recorded by a photographic medium for example a camera film or sensor. Opening up can be done in one of two ways; By selecting a larger aperture setting on a lens, or setting a longer exposure time on a camera.

Social documentary photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-22 18:46:55 UTC

Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of what the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography, with the aim to draw the public's attention to ongoing social issues.

The scheimpflug principle

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-22 18:47:40 UTC

The Scheimpflug principle is a description of the geometric relationship between the orientation of the plane of focus, the lens plane, and the image plane of an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane.

Lomography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-27 00:40:38 UTC

Lomography is a photographic genre that relies on a camera rather than on a subject matter or technique. It encapsulates all photographs taken with a Lomo camera. And a Lomo camera is nothing like a modern DSLR or mirrorless camera. A Lomo camera is a Russian 35mm film camera.

Incident Light Meter Reading

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-27 00:40:49 UTC

Because incident metering reads the intensity of light falling on the subject, it provides readings that will create accurate and consistent rendition of the subject's tonality, color, and contrasts regardless of reflectance, background color, brightness, or subject textures.

Reflected Light Meter Reading

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-27 00:41:03 UTC

A reflective meter measures the intensity of light bouncing off the subject you're photographing. Because the meter measures the light after hitting the subject, how reflective the subject is or isn't will affect what the meter “thinks” is the proper exposure setting.

Push Processing [Film]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-27 00:41:17 UTC

Push processing in photography, sometimes called uprating, refers to a film developing technique that increases the effective sensitivity of the film being processed.

Pull Processing [Film]

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-27 00:41:29 UTC

Pull processing involves overexposure and underdevelopment, effectively decreasing the sensitivity of the processed film. It is achieved by developing the film for a shorter time, and possibly at a lower temperature. Film that has been pull processed will display the opposite change in visual characteristics.

Dada Movement

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-29 18:43:57 UTC

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

Dusseldorf school of photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-29 18:44:36 UTC

The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Group f/64

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-29 18:44:59 UTC

64, loose association of California photographers who promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography. The group, formed in 1932, constituted a revolt against Pictorialism, the soft-focused, academic photography that was then prevalent among West Coast artists.

The pictures generation

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-29 18:45:20 UTC

The name pictures generation was given to a group of American artists who came of age in the early 1970s and who were known for their critical analysis of media culture.

Straight photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-02-29 18:45:36 UTC

Pure photography or straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene or subject in sharp focus and detail, in accordance with the qualities that distinguish photography from other visual media, particularly painting.

The aesthetic movement

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-07 18:44:50 UTC

The aesthetic movement was a late nineteenth century movement that championed pure beauty and 'art for art's sake' emphasising the visual and sensual qualities of art and design over practical, moral or narrative considerations.

Impressionism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-07 18:46:03 UTC

Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.

Expressionism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-07 18:46:26 UTC

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

Art Noveau

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-07 18:46:51 UTC

Art Nouveau, ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.

Conceptual Art

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-07 18:47:08 UTC

Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

Street photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-21 17:43:58 UTC

street photography, a genre of photography that records everyday life in a public place. The very publicness of the setting enables the photographer to take candid pictures of strangers, often without their knowledge.

Editorial photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-21 17:44:08 UTC

Editorial photography is a type of photography in which the images captured by a photographer appear in print or online publications. These publications print information on various topics, like current events, travel, wildlife and entertainment.

Kinetic photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-21 17:44:16 UTC

Kinetic photography (kinetic meaning "caused by motion") is an experimental photographic technique in which the photographer uses movement resulting from physics to create an image.

Scientific photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-21 17:44:27 UTC

Scientific photography is the use of photos to collect scientific data and imagery for scientific research and applied sciences like engineering and medicine.

Seascape photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-03-21 17:44:34 UTC

A seascape is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art. The word originated as a formation from landscape, which was first used of images of land in art. By a similar development, "seascape" has also come to mean actual perceptions of the sea itself.

Fantasy photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-04 17:43:14 UTC

Fantasy photography is a genre of photography that involves creating images that are based on fantasy, mythology, and folklore. Fantasy photos often feature surreal or magical elements, such as fairies, elves, goblins, and dragons.

Pet photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-04 17:44:13 UTC

Pet photography is a type of photography that revolves around taking captivating pet pictures, such as dog pictures, cat pictures, and other animal portraits, to capture the beauty and personality of our furry companions.

Storm photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-04 17:44:45 UTC

Storm photography celebrates how our complex atmosphere expresses light and color.

Event photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-04 17:45:00 UTC

Event photography is the professional art of snapping high-quality images during a wide variety of important occasions, from personal events like weddings or birthday parties to large public gatherings like corporate events, galas, award ceremonies, and music festivals.

Travel photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-04 17:45:20 UTC

The Photographic Society of America defines a travel photo as an image that expresses the feeling of a time and place, portrays a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographical limitations.

Real Estate Photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-11 17:44:30 UTC

A real estate photographer is an artistic professional who takes favorable photos of commercial and residential property. They work with realtors who use the photos to sell properties online. Real estate photographers may also take photographs for model home builders, designers, home decorators or architects.

Corporate photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-11 17:44:48 UTC

Corporate photography includes all kinds of photographs used for a corporation's needs. The types of corporate photography include portraits, product photos, office environment photos, and event photography. The photographs can then be used in employee recruitment materials or digital training sessions.

Cityscape photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-11 17:45:05 UTC

Cityscape photography is a form of landscape photography, but the landscapes in question are elements of a city. Often, these photos are shot with the goal of capturing the skyline of the city. Vantage point, framing, lens choice, and perspective all play a part in creating a compelling image.

Advertising photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-11 17:45:22 UTC

Advertising photography focuses on taking pictures for high-impact advertisements. Companies capture and publish these images for a specific purpose because they feature elements encouraging audience engagement.

Stock photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-11 17:45:28 UTC

a photographic image of a generic subject (such as a person, object, or location) that is kept for later use.

Pinhole photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:45:05 UTC

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called pinhole)—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is known as the camera obscura effect.

Glamour photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:45:13 UTC

Glamour photography is a genre that focuses on accentuating a subject's beauty and allure, often through the use of professionally styled hair, makeup, and wardrobe.

Drone photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:45:20 UTC

Drone photography is the capture of still images and video by a remotely-operated or autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) or, more commonly, as a drone.

Panorama photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:45:31 UTC

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography.

Blacklight photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:45:41 UTC

Ultraviolet or infrared radiation used for fluorescent effects, photography, etc. in the dark. Webster's New World. Invisible ultraviolet or infrared radiation. Black light causes fluorescent materials to emit visible light and is used to take pictures in the dark.

Suprematism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:49:45 UTC

Suprematist art is based on creating from feeling rather than depicting an actual object. The movement's name comes from the supremacy of pure artistic feeling , as Malevich described it in his manifesto.

Photorealism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:49:53 UTC

the quality in art (such as animation or painting) of depicting or seeming to depict real people, objects, etc. with the exactness of a photograph.

Tonalism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:50:01 UTC

Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often dominated compositions by artists associated with the style.

Synchronism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:50:14 UTC

In photography, flash synchronization or flash sync is the synchronizing the firing of a photographic flash with the opening of the shutter admitting light to photographic film or electronic image sensor.

Symbolism

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-18 17:50:21 UTC

Similar to conceptual photography and surrealism, symbolic photography uses objects, colors, and themes to convey specific ideas and intentionally evoke emotions. “I think it's really all about an object that has some sort of deeper meaning,” says photographer Lauren Johnson.

Wildlife photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-25 17:44:33 UTC

Wildlife photography is a genre of photography that records the life of animals in their natural settings, like in a forest or underwater. So, wildlife photography often constitutes the images of animals in movement or action such as eating, fighting, or in flight.

Large format photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-25 17:45:38 UTC

The term refers to the size of your film sheet, that will in turn determine the camera size you'll use as well. Commonly referred to in inches, large format sheet film starts at 4×5, 5x7, and 8x10, going up to ultra large formats such as 11x14, 16×20 and even the incredible size of 20×24 (51 x 61 cm).

Contrast photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-25 17:45:45 UTC

Contrast is the range of brightness, from lightest to darkest, in an image. A high-contrast image will have very bright highlights and very dark shadows. Sometimes an image's highlights may be almost pure white, or the shadows may be almost pure black: high contrast.

Brand photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-25 17:45:52 UTC

Brand photography is the suite of bespoke images used to represent companies and form clear visual identities for marketing materials. It includes all your product photos, team headshots, social media and blog images and every picture you use for digital or print media - but only if they're unique to you.

Long exposure photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-04-25 17:46:01 UTC

Long exposure photography is the name given to the technique in which the camera's shutter is left open during a somewhat lengthy period of time. The resulting image captures the trail of moving objects in front of the camera, while showing still elements razor sharp.

Bodyscape photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-05-02 17:44:43 UTC

A traditional bodyscape is a photograph of the human form, posed and lit in such a way the the body looks like an abstract landscape.

Forensic photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-05-02 17:45:20 UTC

Forensic photographers use specialized photography methods to accurately depict crime scenes, physical injuries, evidence and other visual elements, aiding law enforcement, legal teams and forensic experts in their efforts to reconstruct events and establish facts within the context of criminal justice

Glitch photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-05-02 17:45:26 UTC

By using Photoshop's existing tools, you can move elements of the image within the frame. Then, through creating copies of the image in several layers with various colour channels active, you can form a colour shift effect. Blending all of the layers results in a great looking example of glitch photography.

Computational photography

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-05-02 17:45:36 UTC

Computational photography refers to digital image capture and processing techniques that use digital computation instead of optical processes.

The mordancage process

jordanroberts2187 — 2024-05-02 17:45:47 UTC

Mordançage is an alternative photographic process that alters silver gelatin prints to give them a degraded effect. The mordançage solution works in two ways: it chemically bleaches the print so that it can be redeveloped, and it lifts the black areas of the emulsion away from the paper giving the appearance of veils.