Vocab Padlet by Katelyn Randall-Perez

Color Fringing

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-21 18:56:52 UTC

In photography, purple fringing is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph. This optical aberration is generally most visible as a coloring and lightening of dark edges adjacent to bright areas of broad-spectrum illumination, such as daylight or various types of gas-discharge lamps.

Posterization

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-21 18:57:26 UTC

print or display (a photograph or other image) using only a small number of different tones.

Aliasing [Moire Pattern]

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-21 18:58:37 UTC

Sometimes called moiré or a glitch, aliasing is a phenomenon where a digital camera has trouble translating an intricate pattern. Aliasing can result in a number of odd visual artifacts in photos or videos.

JPEG Artifacts

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-21 18:59:18 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-21 19:00:20 UTC

Bloom is a slight blurring of light sources to create an aura around them. Bloom doesn't suit every photo, but when used wisely, it can make many pictures more attractive.

APS-C Image Sensor

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-24 17:42:02 UTC

The APS-C is a type of image sensor used in digital photography. It's named after the Advanced Photo System, a film format from the mid-1990s and has since been discontinued.

Full Frame Image Sensor

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-24 17:42:56 UTC

The sensor is the physical rectangle in the center of your DSLR camera that reads the image from the lens. Generally, the larger the sensor, the more light and detail you are able to capture, and the higher your image quality will be. A full-frame camera has a sensor the size of a 35mm film camera (24mm x 36mm).

Image Sensor

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-24 17:43:21 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 into signals, small bursts of current that convey the information. The waves can be light or other electromagnetic radiation.

Lens Crop Factor

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-24 17:43:56 UTC

What is Crop Factor? Crop factor describes the size difference between a 35mm film frame and your camera's sensor. For example, if your camera has a crop factor of 2, it means that a 35mm film frame is twice as large as your camera's sensor. Modern digital cameras are fitted with sensors of varying size.

Byte (Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte)

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-24 17:44:29 UTC

Kilo- means 1,000; a Kilobyte is one thousand bytes. Mega- means 1,000,000; a Megabyte is a million bytes. Giga- means 1,000,000,000; a Gigabyte is a billion bytes. Tera- means 1,000,000,000,000; a Terabyte is a trillion bytes. Peta- means 1,000,000,000,000,000; a Petabyte is 1,000 Terabytes.

Cubism

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-31 17:45:52 UTC

an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.

Minimalism

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-31 17:46:56 UTC

Minimalism is all about owning only what adds value and meaning to your life (as well as the lives of the people you care about) and removing the rest. It's about removing the clutter and using your time and energy for the things that remain. We only have a certain amount of energy, time, and space in our lives.

Pop Art

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-31 17:47:42 UTC

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.

Avant-Garde

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-31 17:48:30 UTC

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde identifies a genre of art, an experimental work of art, and the experimental artist who created the work of art, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

Surrealism

26krandall11022 — 2023-08-31 17:49:35 UTC

Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.

Appropriation

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-07 17:40:32 UTC

appropriation noun [C or U] (TAKING)

the act of taking something for your own use, usually without permission: The author objected to the appropriation of his story by an amateur filmmaker. usually disapproving.

Double Exposure Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-07 17:41:09 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-07 17:41:52 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-07 17:43:04 UTC

Broadly, commercial photography refers to photography that is used to sell or promote a product or service, or otherwise support a business or organization in making more money. Often, this can refer to product photography, lifestyle photography, and even fashion photography.

Aerial Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-07 17:43:55 UTC

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

Histogram

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-14 17:39:48 UTC

In photography, a histogram is a graph showing the distribution of light in an image. Most cameras are capable of displaying a histogram for each image stored on the camera's memory card. Some cameras even allow you to see a live histogram before you take the shot.

Anti-Art

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-14 17:40:23 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-14 17:41:27 UTC

Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium.

ND Filters

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-14 17:42:06 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. It can be a colorless or grey filter, and is denoted by Wratten number 96.

Cross Processing

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-14 17:42:45 UTC

Cross processing is the deliberate processing of photographic film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film. The effect was discovered independently by many different photographers often by mistake in the days of C-22 and E-4.

Honeycomb Grid

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-22 18:50:56 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-22 18:51:39 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-22 18:52:11 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. Snoots can be cylindrical or truncated conical in shape, different lengths and diameters, and made of various materials.

Softbox

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-22 18:52:44 UTC

A soft box is a type of photographic lighting device, one of a number of photographic soft light devices. All the various soft light types create even and diffused light by transmitting light through some scattering material, or by reflecting light off a second surface to diffuse the light.

Monolight

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-22 18:53:11 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 (Specular Highlights)

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:42:55 UTC

Catch light or catchlight is a light source that causes a specular highlight in a subject's eye in an image; the term may also refer to the highlight itself.

Curves (in photoshop)

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:43:29 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.

Levels (in photoshop)

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:43:56 UTC

Levels is a tool in Photoshop and other image editing programs which can move and stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram. It has the power to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones in a histogram.

Ring Light

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:44:22 UTC

A ring flash is a circular light that is often operated with a camera lens in the center to take photographs. Unlike point light sources, a ring flash can illuminate a subject with minimal shadows by closely and evenly surrounding the optical axis of the camera lens.

Tilt-Shift Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:45:17 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.

SOOC (Acronym)

26krandall11022 — 2023-09-28 17:48:02 UTC

SOOC is an abbreviation of the photography term “Straight Out Of Camera”, simply meaning that an image can be good enough to print straight from the camera without further processing. Unfortunately there is a much deeper meaning behind that term than this simple explanation.

Ambrotype

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-05 17:44:36 UTC

The ambrotype also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light.

Polaroid Transfer

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-05 17:45:09 UTC

A Polaroid transfer, sometimes known as an image transfer, is a technique used to develop a peel-apart film picture on to a different material, like drawing paper. In a Polaroid transfer, the image is peeled apart prematurely and the negative is placed down on a desired material.

Photogravure

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-05 17:45:52 UTC

Photogravure is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking.

Cyanotype

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-05 17:46:32 UTC

The cyanotype is a slow-reacting, economical photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near ultraviolet and blue light spectrum, the range 300 nm to 400 nm known as UVA radiation.

The Chlorophyll Process

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-05 17:47:15 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-12 17:42:14 UTC

A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin', coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion.

Static

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-12 17:43:00 UTC

Also known as a locked-off shot, or an immobile shot. The frame can be filled with the movement of vehicles, characters, props, weather, etc, but the frame itself does not move in a static shot. The opposite of a static camera shot, a shot in which the camera moves, is known as a dynamic shot.

Visual Weight

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-12 17:43:34 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

26krandall11022 — 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-12 17:45:53 UTC

Illusionistic space creates the three-dimensional sense of space by adding depth through various artistic techniques. Actual space relates specifically to three-dimensional items where space is real and tangible. It concerns itself with artworks such as pottery, jewelry, sculpture, family mementos, and special objects.

Split Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:41:34 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:43:07 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. It's predominantly characterized by a lit-up triangle underneath the subject's eye on the less illuminated area of the face (fill side)

Loop Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:43:52 UTC

A loop lighting pattern is created by using a light source positioned just to the side and pointed downward toward the subject. When working with a continuous light source or a strobe with a modelling lamp, positioning the light is very simple since the shadows can be seen immediately.

Butterfly Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:44:34 UTC

In cinematography, butterflies are structures on which materials are mounted so to control lighting in a scene or photograph. Materials commonly used on butterflies include: flags, nets, and diffusions for the purposes of blocking, dimming, and scattering light respectively.

Broad Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:45:20 UTC

Broad lighting is a type of lighting setup where the area of a subject's face that is facing the camera is lit more brightly. The term “broad lighting” comes from lighting the broad side of a subject's face. It is also on of the typical photography lighting setups for shooting portraits.

Short Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-19 17:45:54 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-26 17:42:31 UTC

vortograph, 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-26 17:43:20 UTC

Scanography, 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 array capturing device.

Typology Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-26 17:43:58 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-26 17:44:31 UTC

"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" was a groundbreaking exhibition of contemporary landscape photography held at the George Eastman House's International Museum of Photography from October 1975 to February 1976.

Solargraphy

26krandall11022 — 2023-10-26 17:45:09 UTC

Solarigraphy is a concept and a photographic practice based on the observation of the sun path in the sky and its effect on the landscape, captured by a specific procedure that combines pinhole photography and digital processing.

Kelvin

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:44:24 UTC

The definition of Kelvin is “the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature, equal in magnitude to the degree Celsius.” Scientific jargon aside, Kelvin is used in lighting to measure the color temperature of a light bulb. In short, the higher the Kelvin rating (expressed in K), the whiter the light will be.

Subtractive Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:45:39 UTC

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

Lighting Ratio

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:46:06 UTC

Lighting ratio in photography refers to the comparison of key light to the total fill light. The higher the lighting ratio, the higher the contrast of the image; the lower the ratio, the lower the contrast.

ICC Profile

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:46:49 UTC

In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium.

Flat Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:47:13 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:48:00 UTC

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

Nifty Fifty

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:49:17 UTC

A nifty fifty is a fast 50mm lens. The “nifty” part comes from a very wide aperture—under f/1.8. The “fifty” refers to the focal length. A fast 50mm lens is the closest you can get to the human eye. This means low amounts of distortion and a similar field of view.

Togs

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:50:10 UTC

Tog/Photog: It's short for a photographer. A Street Tog is slang for a street photographer.

Digital Lasagna

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:51:07 UTC

Digital Lasagna is a creative digital studio located in Charlotte, NC. We are a forward-thinking photographic content creator for digital platforms that specialize in serving up delicious bytes.

Muddy

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-09 18:52:13 UTC

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

Dust Bunnies

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-16 18:43:55 UTC

They are often dust particles or, especially in the Spring and Summer months, pollen. If static charges build up, dust bunnies can become attracted to each other, resulting in large “super” dust bunnies. These can collect on the sensor glass of your camera and result in dark blobs when you image.

Clipping

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-16 18:45:01 UTC

Clipping is a form of waveform distortion that occurs when an amplifier is overdriven and attempts to deliver an output voltage or current beyond its maximum capability. Driving an amplifier into clipping may cause it to output power in excess of its power rating. Wikipedia

Fill Light

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-16 18:45:31 UTC

In television, film, stage, or photographic lighting, a fill light may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and record the same amount of detail typically seen by eye in average lighting and considered normal.

Key Light

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-16 18:46:07 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-16 18:46:39 UTC

Tethering or phone-as-modem is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN, over Bluetooth or by physical connection using a cable, for example through USB.

Infared Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-30 18:45:48 UTC

In infrared photography, the photographic film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm.

Composite Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-30 18:47:42 UTC

Composite portraiture is a technique invented by Sir Francis Galton in the 1880s after a suggestion by Herbert Spencer for registering photographs of human faces on the two eyes to create an "average" photograph of all those in the photographed group.

Lifestyle Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-30 18:48:57 UTC

Lifestyle photography is a genre of photography that mainly aims to capture portraits of people in situations, real-life events, or milestones in an artistic manner. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's lives or to inspire people at different times.

Urban Exploration Photography

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-30 18:49:36 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

26krandall11022 — 2023-11-30 18:50:02 UTC

Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky.

Neutral Density Filters

26krandall11022 — 2023-12-07 18:43:28 UTC

CPL Filters

26krandall11022 — 2023-12-07 18:43:55 UTC

A polarizing filter or polarising filter is often placed in front of the camera lens in photography in order to darken skies, manage reflections, or suppress glare from the surface of lakes or the sea.

Chromatic Aberration

26krandall11022 — 2023-12-07 18:44:28 UTC

In optics, chromatic aberration, also called chromatic distortion and spherochromatism, is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. It is caused by dispersion: the refractive index of the lens elements varies with the wavelength of light.

Mirrorless Cameras

26krandall11022 — 2023-12-07 18:45:10 UTC

A mirrorless camera is a camera that does not have a mirror.

Watermark

26krandall11022 — 2023-12-07 18:45:53 UTC

A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light, caused by thickness or density variations in the paper. Watermarks have been used on postage stamps, currency, and other government documents to discourage counterfeiting.

Clamshell Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:43:30 UTC

The setup is so named because it places two lights at 45-degree angles, one facing up and one facing down, mimicking the shape of a clamshell (it can also be done with a light above and a reflector below). The overhead light is the key and is typically something like a beauty dish.

Badger Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:44:18 UTC

Doubleback lighting, which I also found to be called as “badger” lighting is a creative two-light setup that helps to emphasize shadows which adds angles to the face and body.

High Key Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:44:45 UTC

High-key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or photography that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. This was originally done partly for technological reasons, since early film and television did not deal well with high contrast ratios, but now is used to suggest an upbeat mood.

Low Key Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:45:09 UTC

Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting uses a key light, a fill light and a back light for illumination.

Hard Key Lighting

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:45:38 UTC

Hard light is a focused, often bright light that casts harsh shadows and draws attention to a specific part of a photo. In hard lighting, the transition between the light and the shadows is very harsh and defined. When your subject is bathed in hard light, their silhouette will cast a distinct, hard shadow.

Diffraction

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:46:25 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:46:59 UTC

IPS is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays. In IPS, a layer of liquid crystals is sandwiched between two glass surfaces. The liquid crystal molecules are aligned parallel to those surfaces in predetermined directions.

Anamorphic Lens

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:47:42 UTC

Anamorphic lenses help cinematographers capture wider images on movie film than traditional camera lenses. They also don't create the close-up distortion typical wide-angle lenses do. The center of the frame stays true while the edges of the frame have a dreamy, soft finish.

ATGNI (Acronym)

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:48:16 UTC

ATGNI. This acronym means All The Gear, No Idea.

Gradation

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-18 18:48:45 UTC

the act or process of forming or arranging in grades, stages, or steps.

Focus Stacking

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-25 18:45:50 UTC

Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field than any of the individual source images.

Sunny 16 Rule

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-25 18:46:18 UTC

In photography, the sunny 16 rule is a method of estimating correct daylight exposures without a light meter. Apart from the advantage of independence from a light meter, the sunny 16 rule can also aid in achieving correct exposure of difficult subjects.

Alternative Photo Processes

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-25 18:47:09 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-25 18:48:12 UTC

The Decisive Moment is a term coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. It refers to the moment when all the elements in a photograph come together perfectly to create a meaningful image.

Grip & Rip [Spray & Pray]

26krandall11022 — 2024-01-25 18:50:00 UTC

A slang term that refers to the process of putting a camera into the highest continuous drive mode it offers and maintaining pressure on the shutter button while taking as many pictures as possible in a short amount of time. The similar idea is behind the phrase "spray and pray.”

Toy Cameras

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-01 18:44:22 UTC

A toy camera is a simple, inexpensive film camera. Despite the name, toy cameras are fully functional and capable of taking photographs, though with optical aberrations due to the limitations of their simple lenses

The "Snapshot Aesthetic"

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-01 18:45:42 UTC

The snapshot aesthetic refers to the appropriation of re-creation of traits of the snapshot. This developed from the 1960s when it was recognised as a form of 'folk art', that is, a format that was outside the art canon.

The "Sabattier Effect"

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-01 18:46:37 UTC

The Sabatier effect, also known as pseudo-solarization and erroneously referred to as the Sabattier effect, is a phenomenon in photography in which the image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.

Pictorialism

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-01 18:47:40 UTC

Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries.

Femto Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-01 18:48:31 UTC

Femto-photography is a technique for recording the propagation of ultrashort pulses of light through a scene at a very high speed. A femto-photograph is equivalent to an optical impulse response of a scene and has also been denoted by terms such as a light-in-flight recording or transient image.

Circular Polarizer [Lens]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-15 18:43:13 UTC

How a Polarizer Works and When to use it. A circular polarizer is designed to do one thing: remove or control reflections from surfaces like water, glass, paint, leaves, sky, buildings, streets, and the list goes on. When light hits those surfaces they create glare that increases highlights, reduces color and detail.

Combination Printing [Film]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-15 18:44:27 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-15 18:45:11 UTC

Contre-jour 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]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-15 18:46:07 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]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-15 18:47:53 UTC

Giclée is a neologism, ultimately derived from the French word gicleur, coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made using inkjet printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s.

Lomography

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:43:51 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:44:37 UTC

Handheld incident meters read the intensity of light falling on the subject and are usually taken from the subject position. Because they are not affected by variances in subject color or reflectance, incident meters accurately record the amount of light falling on the subject.

Reflective Light Metering

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:45:36 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]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:46:30 UTC

Push processing in photography, sometimes called uprating, refers to a film developing technique that increases the effective sensitivity of the film being processed. Push processing involves developing the film for more time, possibly in combination with a higher temperature, than the manufacturer's recommendations.

PULL PROCESSING [FILM]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:47:25 UTC

Pulling film is exactly the opposite, shooting and developing film at a slower rated speed (Lower ISO).

BARN DOORS [STUDIO LIGHT ACCESSORY]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:48:34 UTC

Barn doors tend to be used to shape light. They do not affect the hardness or softness of the light very much. Hard light or soft light is created by the size and type of light source. If you need to close the barn doors down tight to narrow the beam of the light a lot you are probably using the wrong light source.

STOP DOWN [APERTURE LINGO]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:50:55 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]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:51:34 UTC

You might also hear phrases such as “opening up,” “stopping down” or “shooting wide open.” Put simply, these phrases all relate to the aperture's ability to open wider or close smaller when letting in available light. A large aperture (remember, large pupil size) is measured using a low f-stop number, such as f/1.4.

SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTGRAPHY

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:51:54 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 SCHEIMPFULG PRINCIPLE [SHIME-P-FLOGE]

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-22 18:52:22 UTC

The Scheimpflug principle states that when a planar subject is not parallel to the image plane, an oblique tangent can be drawn from the image, object and lens planes, and the point of intersection is called Scheimpflug intersection

Dada Movement

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-29 18:44:06 UTC

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire, founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917. New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

Düsseldorf School of Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-29 18:44:58 UTC

Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers' photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).

Group f/64

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-29 18:45:45 UTC

Group f/64 or f.64 was a group founded by seven 20th-century San Francisco Bay Area photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharply focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western viewpoint

The Pictures Generation

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-29 18:47:03 UTC

The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City that ran from April 29 – August 2, 2009. The exhibition took its name from Pictures, a 1977 five person group show organized by art historian and critic Douglas Crimp at New York City's Artists Space gallery.

Straight Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-02-29 18:47:46 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-07 18:43:28 UTC

Aestheticism was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions.

Impressionism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-07 18:44:05 UTC

a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.

Expressionism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-07 18:44:40 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 Nouveau

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-07 18:45:48 UTC

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers.

Conceptual Art

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-07 18:46:23 UTC

Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.

Suprematism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-14 17:43:05 UTC

Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry, painted in a limited range of colors. The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects.

Photorealism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-14 17:43:49 UTC

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

Tonalism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-14 17:44:37 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-14 17:45:18 UTC

Definitions of synchronism. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time. synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony.

Symbolism

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-14 17:46:16 UTC

A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences.

Street Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-21 17:44:40 UTC

Street photography is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places, usually with the aim of capturing images at a decisive or poignant moment by careful framing and timing.

Editorial Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-21 17:45:20 UTC

Editorial photography is a type of photography that aims to tell a story or portray a concept. Editorial photography is commonly found in magazines, newspapers, editorial features, and journalism. Unlike commercial photography, editorial photography relies much more on story than it does on a brand.

Kinetic Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-21 17:45:59 UTC

Kinetic photography is an experimental photographic technique in which the photographer uses movement resulting from physics to create an image. This typically involves the artist not directly holding the camera, but allowing the camera to react to forces applied to it in order to make a photograph.

Scientific Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-21 17:46:38 UTC

What is scientific photography? 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-03-21 17:47:25 UTC

Kieran Hayes. For me, Seascape Photography is the art of capturing the never ending battle between land and sea. We can use these two fantastic elements to our advantage and through the use of shutter speed we can highlight their differences and play with the effect to create a more dramatic image.

Fantasy Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-04 17:43:39 UTC

Fantasy photography, also known as surreal photography, contains fantastical elements or surreal touches. It takes the viewer out of the normal world, into unreal and fictional scenes. Most fantasy photography is an extension of portrait photography – but it's portrait photography with a difference.

Pet Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-04 17:44:12 UTC

Pet photography is currently the most popular form of photography. It captures the pet's personality, character, habits, and other memorable moments. The subject matter is plenty, and you can go for natural, candid shots or portraits.

Storm Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-04 17:44:42 UTC

Storm photography celebrates how our complex atmosphere expresses light and color. And it's important to document the changes in our weather. But before you start photographing storms, educate yourself on the risks and consult the experts so you can stay safe. “Know your subject,” says Reed.

Event Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-04 17:45:22 UTC

Event photography is the practice of photographing guests and occurrences at any Event or occasion where one may hire a photographer for.

Travel Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-04 17:45:58 UTC

Travel photography is a genre of photography that may involve the documentation of an area's landscape, people, cultures, customs, and history.

Real Estate Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-11 17:44:39 UTC

Real Estate Photographers work closely with Real Estate Agents to create advertisements for properties in brochures and online postings. They may meet with the agents to explain their services, share sample photos, and explain their use of lighting and exposure to capture the best images.

Corporate Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-11 17:45:25 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-11 17:45:59 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-11 17:46:39 UTC

Advertising photography is, quite simply, the photography a brand uses to sell its products or services. When done well, photography advertising encourages its audience to be interested in the service. Therefore, this advertising channel is vital to a brand's campaign.

Stock Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-11 17:47:14 UTC

Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, and microstock photography.

Pinhole Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-18 17:45:08 UTC

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture —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

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-18 17:45:54 UTC

Glamour photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in erotic poses ranging from fully clothed to nude. The term may be a euphemism for erotic photography. For glamour models, body shape and size are directly related to success.

Drone Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-18 17:46:27 UTC

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

Panorama Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-18 17:47:03 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-18 17:47:35 UTC

Using black light creates dark photos with bright neon colors. You often see black lights and ultraviolet lights in nightclubs. It gives certain materials a bright neon glow. You can recreate this in your studio or even a darkened room. You just need your camera and a few UV lighting accessories.

Wildlife Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-25 17:43:51 UTC

Wildlife photography is a genre of photography concerned with documenting various forms of wildlife in their natural habitat. As well as requiring photography skills, wildlife photographers may need field craft skills.

Large Format Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-25 17:44:42 UTC

Large format photography refers to any imaging format of 9 cm × 12 cm or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the 6 cm × 6 cm or 6 cm × 9 cm size of Hasselblad, Mamiya, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras, and much larger than the 24 mm × 36 mm frame of 35 mm format.

Contrast Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-25 17:45:23 UTC

In photography, the term contrast refers to the process of capturing the dissimilarity between the elements in an image. These elements can be color, light, tones, textures, and shadows. Applying contrast to your photography elevates conveying a story through your pictures.

Brand Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-25 17:46:33 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

26krandall11022 — 2024-04-25 17:47:19 UTC

Long-exposure, time-exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements.

Bodyscape Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-05-02 17:44:14 UTC

Bodyscape photography is sub-genre within portrait photography that focuses on capturing the human body as a form of art. It celebrates the natural beauty and shape of the human form, highlighting our contours, textures, and shapes.

Forensic Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-05-02 17:45:18 UTC

Forensic photography may refer to the visual documentation of different aspects that can be found at a crime scene. It may include the documentation of the crime scene, or physical evidence that is either found at a crime scene or already processed in a laboratory.

Glitch Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-05-02 17:45:55 UTC

Glitch art is an art movement centering around the practice of using digital or analog errors, more so glitches, for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.

Computational Photography

26krandall11022 — 2024-05-02 17:46:35 UTC

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

The Mordancage Process

26krandall11022 — 2024-05-02 17:48:10 UTC

Based on a 19th century method, the process known as mordançage has been used to dramatically alter black and white photographs since the 1960s. Mordançage subjects a fully developed photograph to a series of wet chemical reactions, beginning with an acidic copper(II) chloride and hydrogen peroxide bleaching solution.