Vocab Padlet by Natasha Sarkar

Color Fringing

craxyhippo — 2023-08-21 19:01:48 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.

Posterization

craxyhippo — 2023-08-21 19:02:42 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]

craxyhippo — 2023-08-21 19:04:27 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

craxyhippo — 2023-08-21 19:05:15 UTC

JPEG artifacts are minor defects when an image is saved in . JPG format. Although they are usually not noticeable, they can occasionally be visible as small blotches or decreased image quality. Several factors, including low-quality JPEG compression, poor lighting conditions, and a camera shake, can cause them.

Blooming

craxyhippo — 2023-08-21 19:07:29 UTC

Bloom in digital cameras is caused by an overflow of charge in the photodiodes, which are the light-sensitive elements in the camera's image sensor. When a photodiode is exposed to a very bright light source, the accumulated charge can spill over into adjacent pixels, creating a halo effect.

Image Sensor [In Camera]

craxyhippo — 2023-08-24 17:42:51 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 [Image Sensor]

craxyhippo — 2023-08-24 17:43:43 UTC

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

Full Frame [Image Sensor]

craxyhippo — 2023-08-24 17:45:07 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).

Lens Crop Factor

craxyhippo — 2023-08-24 17:45:43 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

craxyhippo — 2023-08-24 17:47:18 UTC

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

Cubism

craxyhippo — 2023-08-31 17:44:55 UTC

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related artistic movements in music, literature, and architecture.

Minimalism

craxyhippo — 2023-08-31 17:45:53 UTC

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.

Pop Art

craxyhippo — 2023-08-31 17:46:39 UTC

Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

Avant-Garde

craxyhippo — 2023-08-31 17:47:11 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

craxyhippo — 2023-08-31 17:47:51 UTC

A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Appropriation

craxyhippo — 2023-09-07 17:42:00 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 Photography

craxyhippo — 2023-09-07 17:42:41 UTC

Double exposure is a technique that combines two different exposures or images that are layered on top of each other. The image overlaid is less than full opacity so a bit of both images can be seen producing an almost ghost-like image.

Still Life Photography

craxyhippo — 2023-09-07 17:43:33 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-07 17:44:18 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-07 17:45:16 UTC

An aerial photograph, in broad terms, is any photograph taken from the air. Normally, air photos are taken vertically from an aircraft using a highly-accurate camera.

Histogram

craxyhippo — 2023-09-14 17:43:51 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-14 17:44:29 UTC

Anti-art describes artwork which challenges accepted art definitions. The term is said to have been created by artist Marcel Duchamp who worked with the art media called readymades; everyday items presented as art to defy traditional expectations that art should be high art.

Assemblage

craxyhippo — 2023-09-14 17:45:27 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-14 17:46:09 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-14 17:46:46 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-22 18:52:29 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-22 18:53:00 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-22 18:53:47 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.

Softbox

craxyhippo — 2023-09-22 18:54:20 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-22 18:55:11 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)

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:43:11 UTC

Catchlights are the bright, specular highlights found in a subject's eyes that are reflections of the light source or sources. They will appear the same shape of the light modifier used.

Curves (In Photoshop)

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:43:57 UTC

Curves provide a precise way to adjust the tonal range of an image. By manipulating the curve graph, you can control the brightness, contrast, and tonal balance of shadows, midtones, and highlights independently.

Levels (In Photoshop)

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:44:24 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

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:44:54 UTC

A ring light is a circular light or flash with a hole in the center for a lens or phone. Ring lights are often used by vloggers to create flattering, even lighting, by fashion photographers for beauty shots, and by macro photographers for even lighting while close up.

Tilt-Shift Photography

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:45:54 UTC

ilt–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)

craxyhippo — 2023-09-28 17:46:45 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.

Ambrotype

craxyhippo — 2023-10-05 17:43:13 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-05 17:43:59 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-05 17:44:47 UTC

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

Cyanotype

craxyhippo — 2023-10-05 17:45:19 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-05 17:46:28 UTC

Chlorophyll printing is an alternative photographic process where photographic images are developed on natural leaves through the action of photosynthesis. This organic technique does not use chemicals since the photographs are exposed directly to the sunlight on plants or trees leaves.

TinType

craxyhippo — 2023-10-12 17:43:59 UTC

Tintypes, originally known as or ferrotypes or melainotypes, were invented in the 1850s and continued to be produced into the 20th century. 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-12 17:44:42 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-12 17:45:12 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-12 17:45:45 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-12 17:46:39 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:43:47 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:44:21 UTC

Rembrandt lighting is a standard lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography and cinematography; it is also used in contrast with butterfly lighting It can be achieved using one light

Loop Lighting

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:44:53 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:45:34 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. It's also known as 'Paramount lighting,' named for classic Hollywood glamour photography.

Broad Lighting

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:46:02 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-19 17:46:41 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-26 17:44:44 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-26 17:45:21 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-26 17:46:07 UTC

Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner; to be fully understood, the images must be viewed as a complete series.

New Topographics

craxyhippo — 2023-10-26 17:46:38 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

craxyhippo — 2023-10-26 17:47:04 UTC

What is solargraphy? Solarigrafia, solarigraphy, solargraphy is a photographic method for recording the paths of the Sun. Solargraphy is the art of pinhole photography and a part of Space Art, too. Solarigraphics or solargraphs are pinhole photographs taken with a lensless pinhole camera with a long exposure.

Kelvin [Scale]

craxyhippo — 2023-11-02 17:43:43 UTC

In photography, Kelvin represents the temperature of light directly correlated with the color of the burning carbon at that temperature. When you “shoot in Kelvin”, you are manually adjusting the camera's white balance to match that of the Kelvin temperature in the room.

Subtractive Lighting

craxyhippo — 2023-11-02 17:44:13 UTC

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

Lighting Ratio

craxyhippo — 2023-11-02 17:44:52 UTC

The higher the lighting ratio, the higher the contrast of the image; the lower the ratio, the lower the contrast. The lighting ratio is the ratio of the light levels on the brightest-lit to the least-lit parts of the subject; the brightest-lit areas are lit by both key (K) and fill (F).

ICC Profiles

craxyhippo — 2023-11-02 17:45:29 UTC

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

craxyhippo — 2023-11-02 17:46:00 UTC

Flat light is defined as lighting that produces minimal contrast in the scene, which means there is no, or very little, contrast between the highlights and shadows.

Chimping

craxyhippo — 2023-11-09 18:45:35 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 [lens]

craxyhippo — 2023-11-09 18:46:08 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

craxyhippo — 2023-11-09 18:46:39 UTC

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

Digital Lasagna

craxyhippo — 2023-11-09 18:49:02 UTC

When a photoshop file has hundreds of unnamed layers.

Muddy

craxyhippo — 2023-11-09 18:50:18 UTC

Muddy: If a photo is muddy, the colors are very similar, and nothing in the image stands out. Photos can be muddy if they contain a lot of earthy colors.

Dust Bunnies

craxyhippo — 2023-11-16 18:44:00 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 [Shadows/Highlights]

craxyhippo — 2023-11-16 18:44:49 UTC

A big red or blue patch of color in your image that doesn't belong there. If you've seen it, you definitely have wondered, what the heck is this?? Well, that's the clipping feature in Lightroom telling you which highlight areas of your images have no detail (red), and which areas of shadow have no detail (black).

Fill Light

craxyhippo — 2023-11-16 18:45:23 UTC

A fill light is responsible for exposing the details of a subject that fall in the shadows of the key light. It is the secondary light in the traditional 3 point lighting setup. The fill light is typically positioned opposite of the key light to literally fill in the shadows that the key light creates.

Key Light

craxyhippo — 2023-11-16 18:45:53 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.

Infrared Photography

craxyhippo — 2023-11-30 18:45:18 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

craxyhippo — 2023-11-30 18:46:01 UTC

A photograph made by combining several distinct photographs either made one over another on the same plate or made on one print from a number of negatives.

Lifestyle Photography

craxyhippo — 2023-11-30 18:46:41 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

craxyhippo — 2023-11-30 18:47:19 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

craxyhippo — 2023-11-30 18:47:54 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

craxyhippo — 2023-12-07 18:43:26 UTC

CPL Filters

craxyhippo — 2023-12-07 18:44:03 UTC

A CPL filter, or circular polarizer filter, is an essential tool in a photographer's camera bag that can eliminate unwanted reflections.

Chromatic Aberration

craxyhippo — 2023-12-07 18:44:43 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

craxyhippo — 2023-12-07 18:45:28 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

craxyhippo — 2023-12-07 18:46:56 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-11 18:50:53 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-11 18:51:00 UTC

Double Backlighting. 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. This requires two lights set up at a 45 degree angle behind the subject with two large softboxes.

High Key Lighting

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:42:26 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:42:52 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:43:28 UTC

High-key lighting reduces the lighting ratio in the scene, meaning there's less contrast between the darker tones and the brighter areas. Alternatively, low-key lighting has greater contrast between the dark and light areas of the image with a majority of the scene in shadow.

Diffraction

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:44:52 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:45:31 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 Lenses

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:46:15 UTC

Spherical lenses project images onto the sensor without affecting their aspect ratio. Anamorphic lenses, on the other hand, project a version of the image that is compressed along the longer dimension (usually by a factor of two).

ATGNI

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:48:13 UTC

All The Gear, No Idea. This phrase refers to a person who has all the camera equipment you can think of but has no idea how to use it.

Gradation

craxyhippo — 2024-01-18 18:49:19 UTC

We'll tell you beforehand that in digital images, the term “gradation” is not a gradation representing a continuous color, but a “number of colors” in which colors and colors change intermittently. Therefore, in this article, the gradient representation based on the number of colors is called “gradation.”

Focus Stacking

craxyhippo — 2024-01-25 18:45:49 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-25 18:46:30 UTC

The Sunny 16 rule states that, on sunny days, at an aperture of f/16, your shutter speed is the inverse of your ISO value. For instance, if you set your camera at an aperture of f/16 and ISO 100, your shutter speed should be 1/100 s. This is one of the easiest photography rules to remember.

Alternative Photo Processes

craxyhippo — 2024-01-25 18:47:25 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

craxyhippo — 2024-01-25 18:48:12 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]

craxyhippo — 2024-01-25 18:49:31 UTC

The phrase “grip and rip” means exactly the same thing as “spray and pray”. It means to set your camera in a fast burst mode, shooting several photos per second, and then to simply hold down the shutter button while hoping to capture the perfect image.

Toy Cameras

craxyhippo — 2024-02-01 18:43:25 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"

craxyhippo — 2024-02-01 18:44:09 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. Its purpose is the recording of meaningful moments and delights in its familial sharing.

The "Sabattier Effect"

craxyhippo — 2024-02-01 18:45:08 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-01 18:45:36 UTC

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

Femto Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-02-01 18:46:55 UTC

Femto-photography is a technique for recording the propagation of ultrashort pulses of light through a scene at a very high speed

Lomography

craxyhippo — 2024-02-08 18:47:58 UTC

Lomography is a photographic style which involves taking spontaneous photographs with minimal attention to technical details.

Incident Light Meter Reading

craxyhippo — 2024-02-08 18:48:46 UTC

An incident meter (sometimes called a bulb-meter) works by reading the intensity of the light that falls onto the subject, as opposed to reading the light reflected off of the subject as the reflective meter does. Usually, you take the reading from the position of the subject.

Reflected Light Meter Reading

craxyhippo — 2024-02-08 18:50:15 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]

craxyhippo — 2024-02-08 18:51:07 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]

craxyhippo — 2024-02-08 18:51:52 UTC

Pulling film: In contrast to pushing, pulling film involves intentionally overexposing it and then compensating for the overexposure during development.

Circular Polarizer (Lens)

craxyhippo — 2024-02-15 18:43:09 UTC

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]

craxyhippo — 2024-02-15 18:45:18 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-15 18:46:00 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]

craxyhippo — 2024-02-15 18:47:15 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]

craxyhippo — 2024-02-15 18:48:03 UTC

Pronounced “zhee-clay,” the word giclee is French for “to spray.” This literal interpretation of the word defines what the art of giclee printing is: reproducing art through a printer to exactly resemble an original piece.

Barn Doors (Studio Light Accessory)

craxyhippo — 2024-02-22 18:44:44 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)

craxyhippo — 2024-02-22 18:45:38 UTC

In photography, stopping down refers to increasing the numerical f-stop number (for example, going from f/2 to f/4), which decreases the size (diameter) of the aperture of a lens, resulting in reducing the amount of light entering the iris of a lens.

Open Up (Aperture Lingo)

craxyhippo — 2024-02-22 18:46:14 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-22 18:46:51 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 (Shime-P-Floog)

craxyhippo — 2024-02-22 18:48:59 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.

Dada Movement

craxyhippo — 2024-02-29 18:44:07 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-29 18:44:59 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-29 18:45:35 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-29 18:46:24 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

craxyhippo — 2024-02-29 18:47:29 UTC

The term generally refers to photographs that are not manipulated, either in the taking of the image or by darkroom or digital processes, but sharply depict the scene or subject as the camera sees it.

The Aesthetic Movement

craxyhippo — 2024-03-07 18:40:39 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-07 18:40:45 UTC

Impressionist photography. Description: Impressionist photography is a style of photography that utilizes long exposures to add blur to a photo, creating a dreamy look to the image reminiscent of the impressionist art of the 19th century.

Expressionism

craxyhippo — 2024-03-07 18:41:00 UTC

A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

Art Nouveau

craxyhippo — 2024-03-07 18:41:12 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-07 18:42:24 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-14 17:40:24 UTC

The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects.

Photorealism

craxyhippo — 2024-03-14 17:40:58 UTC

Photorealism describes a highly realistic style of art that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York and California. Using photographic images rather than direct observation as the primary visual reference, artists employed a variety of techniques to achieve stunning levels of verisimilitude.

Tonalism

craxyhippo — 2024-03-14 17:41:49 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-14 17:44:31 UTC

The quality or state of being synchronous in art

Symbolism

craxyhippo — 2024-03-14 17:45:13 UTC

Symbolism is the use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events. The key here is that the symbols used aren't literal representations, but figurative or implied ones.

Street Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-03-21 17:44:32 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-21 17:45:22 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-21 17:45:46 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-21 17:46:30 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

craxyhippo — 2024-03-21 17:47:53 UTC

Seascapes are considered a branch of landscape photography, so in order to be called a seascape, the shot should represent some kind of landscape with the sea in the frame, obviously.

Fantasy Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-04-04 17:44:35 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-04 17:45:37 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-04 17:46:05 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-04 17:46:34 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-04 17:47:19 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-11 17:48:33 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-11 17:49:14 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-11 17:49:43 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-11 17:50:07 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-11 17:50:44 UTC

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

Pinhole Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-04-18 17:44:24 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-18 17:44:58 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-18 17:45:29 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-18 17:46:03 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-18 17:46:31 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.

Wildlife Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-04-25 17:43:08 UTC

These are wild animals photographed solely in their natural habitats/environments, including Marine life and botanical subjects. Botanical subjects are algae and fungi. Above all, the definitions are for the major photo competitions and exhibitions.

Large Format Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-04-25 17:43:58 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-25 17:45:00 UTC

Contrast in photography is the visual ratio of different tones in an image. This difference is what creates the textures, highlights, shadows, colors and clarity in a photograph.

Brand Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-04-25 17:45:46 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

craxyhippo — 2024-04-25 17:46:38 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

craxyhippo — 2024-05-02 17:44:25 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

craxyhippo — 2024-05-02 17:45:08 UTC

Forensic photography creates a permanent visual record of the crime scene in the state in which it was originally found and plays a huge role throughout the entire investigation. It also plays a beneficial role in reconstructing the events which took place and give jurors a clear image of the crime.

Glitch Photography

craxyhippo — 2024-05-02 17:45:48 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

craxyhippo — 2024-05-02 17:46:30 UTC

Computational photography is best described as digital photography which maximizes the use of software to enhance digital images. It's been in use ever since the first digital image. Many don't realize or don't consider that all digital photography is computational photography.

The Mordancage Process

craxyhippo — 2024-05-02 17:47:21 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.