Vocab Padlet by Ciara Alibin

Color Fringing

ciaravfa — 2023-08-21 18:57:44 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

Posterization

ciaravfa — 2023-08-21 18:58:27 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]

ciaravfa — 2023-08-21 18:59:25 UTC

aliasing is a phenomenon where a digital camera has trouble translating an intricate pattern.

JPEG Artifacts

ciaravfa — 2023-08-21 19:00:16 UTC

JPEG artifacts are distortions or "noise" that appear in an image due to the lossy compression method used by the JPEG format.

Blooming

ciaravfa — 2023-08-21 19:03:03 UTC

Blooming is the optical effect where light from a bright source (such as a glint) appears to leak into surrounding objects.

Image Sensor

ciaravfa — 2023-08-24 17:46:09 UTC

An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image.

APS-C

ciaravfa — 2023-08-24 17:47:07 UTC

APS C sensors are cropped sensors that are generally cheaper and easier to travel with than their full frame counterparts.

Full Frame

ciaravfa — 2023-08-24 17:47:53 UTC

What is full-frame? A full-frame sensor is most simply deﬁned by its sheer size—36 mm by 24 mm

Lens Crop Factor

ciaravfa — 2023-08-24 17:48:55 UTC

Crop factor is the ratio of a camera sensor's size to a 35mm film frame. Use it to calculate effective focal lengths and compare lenses between DSLRs.

Byte

ciaravfa — 2023-08-24 17:49:39 UTC

a group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.

Cubism

ciaravfa — 2023-08-31 17:45:26 UTC

A cubist work depicts the subject as viewed from several vantage points simultaneously. This is usually represented by the subject being composed of several different planes.

Minimalism

ciaravfa — 2023-08-31 17:46:09 UTC

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

Pop Art

ciaravfa — 2023-08-31 17:46:54 UTC

It transforms portraits and everyday objects into colorful collages, comic book elements, duotone silhouettes, and often a mix of all of the above.

Avant-Garde

ciaravfa — 2023-08-31 17:47:40 UTC

Avant-garde photography

The term is used where the artist is being innovative and experimental in an aspect of their art. The Avant-garde in photography are critical of existing aesthetic views. They reject conventional and established norms in photo-art or photo-method.

Surrealism

ciaravfa — 2023-08-31 17:48:27 UTC

Surreal photography represents unconscious ideas, dreams, and emotions. Examples of surreal photography can be seen in the work of contemporary photographers

Appropriation

ciaravfa — 2023-09-07 17:45:30 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

ciaravfa — 2023-09-07 17:46:09 UTC

Double Exposure is a photographic technique that mainly involves combining two exposures to create a single image. The technique yields very interesting results and allows the photographer to produce ghost images and mirror images that tell a story in a unique way that can't be achieved with a single photo.

Still Life Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-09-07 17:47:08 UTC

Still life is a type of fine art photography, more akin to a painting than to what most people think of as taking a photograph. The subject matter is inanimate commonplace objects. The composition is the key and you have all the time in the world to perfect your vision. You can set up the objects any way you like, and you have complete control over every aspect of the composition.

Commercial Photograph

ciaravfa — 2023-09-07 17:47:58 UTC

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

Aerial Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-09-07 17:48:34 UTC

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

Histogram

ciaravfa — 2023-09-14 17:44:40 UTC

Description: A histogram, in photographic terms, is a graphical representation of the different tones (image data, colors and overall brightness) that is contained in an image.

Anti-Art

ciaravfa — 2023-09-14 17:46:34 UTC

Anti-art is a term used to describe art that challenges the existing accepted definitions of art.

Assemblage

ciaravfa — 2023-09-14 17:47:12 UTC

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

ND Filters

ciaravfa — 2023-09-14 17:48:21 UTC

An ND filter acts like a pair of sunglasses by blocking some of the light coming into a camera.

Cross Processing

ciaravfa — 2023-09-14 17:49:15 UTC

Cross Processing is intentionally processing film in the wrong chemicals, creating interesting and unpredictable color shifts and increased contrast.

Honeycomb Grid

ciaravfa — 2023-09-22 18:53:00 UTC

The “honeycomb Grid” is a simple device to direct the light in a tight beam. It is an example of a range of grids used in front of lights to harden the light source and prevent the light from spreading out into a wider, more diffused beam.

Beauty Dish

ciaravfa — 2023-09-22 18:53:40 UTC

A beauty dish is a photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point.

Snoot

ciaravfa — 2023-09-22 18:54:23 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

ciaravfa — 2023-09-22 18:54:54 UTC

Softboxes are commonly used in photography as a soft source of light that minimizes harsh shadows

Monolight

ciaravfa — 2023-09-22 18:55:22 UTC

A monolight is a self-contained studio strobe light for photography that contains a flash head, power controls, and electronics in a single unit. Its purpose is to emit a powerful and brief flash of light to illuminate a subject.

Catch Lights (Specular Highlights)

ciaravfa — 2023-09-28 17:08:09 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)

ciaravfa — 2023-09-28 17:09:00 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)

ciaravfa — 2023-09-28 17:10:08 UTC

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

Ring Light

ciaravfa — 2023-09-28 17:12:06 UTC

A ring light is a simple lighting tool that is commonly used for beauty shots, portraits, and macro photography.

Tilt-Shift Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-09-28 17:12:54 UTC

The tilt effect alters the focal plane of the image, but the shift effect alters an image's perspective. With the Shift knob, you can move the lens up and down or side to side on the body of the camera. As the lens moves, the image plane moves too, so that the sensor records different areas of the total image.

Ambrotype

ciaravfa — 2023-10-05 17:46:04 UTC

Ambrotypes were most popular in the mid-1850s to mid-1860s. Cartes de visite and other paper print photographs, easily available in multiple copies, replaced them. An ambrotype is comprised of an underexposed glass negative placed against a dark background. The dark backing material creates a positive image.

Polaroid Transfer

ciaravfa — 2023-10-05 17:46:47 UTC

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

Photogravure

ciaravfa — 2023-10-05 17:47:33 UTC

Simply put, creating a photogravure involves using a photograph or negative to etch an image into a copper plate with light and chemicals, then printing it traditionally with ink on paper. So technically, it is a mechanically produced print

Cyanotype

ciaravfa — 2023-10-05 17:48:08 UTC

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

The Chlorophyll Process

ciaravfa — 2023-10-05 17:49:33 UTC

Chlorophyll printing is an alternative photographic process where photographic images are developed on natural leaves through the action of photosynthesis.

Tintype

ciaravfa — 2023-10-12 17:45:57 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', ...

Static

ciaravfa — 2023-10-12 17:47:38 UTC

Static images are literally visual images that do not move. They include greeting cards, posters, slides, photographs, paintings, compact disc covers, comics, cartoons, charts, collages, models, dioramas, newspapers, and print advertisements.

Visual Weight

ciaravfa — 2023-10-12 17:48:17 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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-12 17:49:03 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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-12 17:50:23 UTC

Using imaginative composition, lighting effects or photo-editing software, illusion photography allows your photographs to play tricks on the viewer's visual senses.

Split Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:44:57 UTC

Split lighting is a technique of high contrast and produces a brooding effect.

Rembrandt Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:46:04 UTC

Rembrandt lighting is a technique utilizing one light and one reflector or two separate lights.

Loop Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:47:02 UTC

A loop lighting pattern is created by using a light source positioned just to the side and pointed downward toward the subject.

Butterfly Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:47:36 UTC

Butterfly lighting is a portrait lighting pattern where the key light is placed above and directly centered with a subject's face.

Broad Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:48:40 UTC

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

Short Lighting

ciaravfa — 2023-10-19 17:49:11 UTC

What is short lighting? 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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-26 17:45:10 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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-26 17:46:48 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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-26 17:47:37 UTC

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

ciaravfa — 2023-10-26 17:49:32 UTC

Technique in which a scene—usually a landscape—is photographed as if it were being surveyed from afar, practiced most famously by the 1970s 'New Topographics' photographers, including Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Nicholas Nixon, and Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Solargraphy

ciaravfa — 2023-10-26 17:50:16 UTC

Solargraphy is the art of long exposure photography that captures of the image of the sun moving across the sky.

Kelvin [Scale]

ciaravfa — 2023-11-02 17:45:41 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-02 17:47:06 UTC

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

Lighting Ratio

ciaravfa — 2023-11-02 17:47:39 UTC

Lighting ratio in photography refers to the comparison of key light (the main source of light from which shadows fall) to the total fill light (the light that fills in the shadow areas).

ICC Profiles

ciaravfa — 2023-11-02 17:47:54 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-02 17:49:06 UTC

When you have your light source facing directly at the front of your subject, this is flat lighting. Flat lighting on a face will mean that your subject is well lit and you are unable to see any shadows along their face. This is not a heavily desired look in portraits as you need shadows to draw your subject to life.

Chimping

ciaravfa — 2023-11-09 18:44:54 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-09 18:45:37 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.

Togs

ciaravfa — 2023-11-09 18:46:20 UTC

Tog/Photog: It's short for a photographer. A Street Tog is slang for a street photographer. Touching up: As a photography term, touching up means enhancing your image in post-processing.

Digital Lasagna

ciaravfa — 2023-11-09 18:47:28 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-09 18:48:22 UTC

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

Dust Bunnies

ciaravfa — 2023-11-16 18:43:35 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]

ciaravfa — 2023-11-16 18:44:34 UTC

Clipping occurs when there are areas of a photo that have no information. When an area has no information, it is either pure white (clipped highlights) or pure black (clipped shadows). Photographers often refer to these as "blown out" areas.

Fill Light

ciaravfa — 2023-11-16 18:45:07 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-16 18:45:47 UTC

A key light is the main source of light in a video or photo. High-key lighting results in brightly lit subjects with more fill light and softer shadows. Fill lights are used to increase the amount of ambient light in a scene and reduce the contrast.

Tethering

ciaravfa — 2023-11-16 18:46:54 UTC

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

Infrared Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-11-30 18:45:13 UTC

This effect is generally used in landscape photography to produce dreamy scenes. Skin takes on a smooth texture, perfect for haunting portraits. Certain stars and other constellations pop in infrared light.

Composite Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-11-30 18:45:50 UTC

A composite image is a digital image composed of elements from different images and photographs. In photography, a composite image is a post-production creation in which elements from different photographs are edited together using photo editing software to create a new image as the end result.

Lifestyle Photography

ciaravfa — 2023-11-30 18:46:39 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-30 18:47:18 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

ciaravfa — 2023-11-30 18:47:42 UTC

Astrophotography allows to record great pictures of the Universe: from the planets to the Moon, from galaxies to nebulas, from the Sun to star clusters.

Neutral Density Filters

ciaravfa — 2023-12-07 18:45:01 UTC

Neutral Density (ND) filters reduce the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of light equally from entering the camera, in measured amounts.

CPL Filters

ciaravfa — 2023-12-07 18:45:39 UTC

a CPL filter is a circular polarizer filter that incorporates a linear polarizer filter with a quarter-wave plate.

Chromatic Aberration

ciaravfa — 2023-12-07 18:46:33 UTC

a color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects in a photograph

Mirrorless Camera

ciaravfa — 2023-12-07 18:47:33 UTC

A mirrorless camera is a camera that does not have a mirror. Though most cameras, including those used in smartphones, lack mirrors, the term mirrorless is primarily used to describe digital interchangeable lens cameras, in order to distinguish them from DSLRs, which have historically dominated interchangeable lens cameras.^[1] Lacking a mirror system allows the camera to be smaller, quieter, and lighter.^[2

Watermark

ciaravfa — 2023-12-07 18:48:09 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.

Diffraction

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:45:21 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 Mirrors

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:46:23 UTC

IPS (in-plane switching) is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). 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 (in-plane).

Anamorphic Lenses

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:46:59 UTC

Anamorphic lenses are good for getting wide landscape shots, as they can showcase that vaster perspective. However, anamorphic lenses can also add drama to close-up shots. Their shallow depth of field creates a striking contrast between a hyper-focused subject and a blurred background.

ATGNI

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:47:44 UTC

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

Gradation

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:48:56 UTC

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

Clamshell lighting

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:49:59 UTC

Clamshell lighting is a common way to photograph a head shot, often used in the fashion world. The general idea is you take 2 light sources, or a light source and a reflector. Both of them are roughly on-axis with the center of the person's face. You put one of them above pointed down, and the other lower pointed up

Badger Lighting

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:50:06 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

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:50:16 UTC

What Is High Key Photography? High key photography is a style of photography that uses unusually bright lighting to reduce or completely blow out dark shadows in the image. High key shots usually lack dark tones and the high key look is generally thought of as positive and upbeat.

Low Key Lighting

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:50:24 UTC

Low-key photography is a genre of photography consisting of shooting dark-colored scenes by lowering or dimming the "key" or front light illuminating the scene (low-key lighting), and emphasizing natural or artificial light only on specific areas in the frame.

Hard Key Lighting

ciaravfa — 2024-01-18 18:50:32 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.

Focus Stacking

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:08:47 UTC

Professional photographers use a technique called focus stacking to portray multiple objects in focus on various focal planes in one sharp image where everything is in focus, essentially mimicking a greater depth of field without any loss of definition.

Sunny 16 Rule

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:09:12 UTC

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

Alternative Processes

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:09:56 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

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:10:34 UTC

Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.

Grip & Rip (Spray & Pray)

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:11:12 UTC

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

Toy Camera

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:12:22 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. From the 1990s onward, there has been interest in the artistic use of such cameras or recreation of this style, both with cameras originally designed for children, and others originally intended as mass-market consumer cameras.

Snapshot Aesthetic

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:12:48 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

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:13:22 UTC

The Sabatier effect, also known as pseudo-solarization (or pseudo-solarisation) 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.

Pictorialism

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:13:57 UTC

Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. Petrocelli, Joseph: The Curb Market - New York.

Femto Photography

ciaravfa — 2024-02-05 16:14:25 UTC

The new technique, which we call Femto Photography, consists of femtosecond laser illumination, picosecond-accurate detectors and mathematical reconstruction techniques. Our light source is a Titanium Sapphire laser that emits pulses at regular intervals every ~13 nanoseconds.

Lomography

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 06:09:01 UTC

Lomography is a unique form of photography that uses lo-fi methods and quirky equipment to create interesting and unpredictable results.

Incident Light Meter Reading

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 06:09:25 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.

Reflected Light Meter Reading

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 06:10:29 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 06:11:03 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 06:11:51 UTC

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

Circular Polarizer (Lens)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:20:24 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:21:18 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.

Contre-Jour

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:24:04 UTC

having the sun or other light source behind the subject.

Duotone (Printing Method)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:29:24 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:30:01 UTC

Simply put, a giclee is a fine art print created by using a specialized high resolution inkjet printer. Yes, a giclee is in fact an “art print” but giclee prints stand apart with their extremely high level of quality, longevity and value compared to a standard print.

Barn Doors (Studio Light Accessory)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:30:32 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:30:57 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)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:31:23 UTC

A small f-number means the aperture is open more. A larger f-number means it's open less. For example, f/1 lets in much more light than f/6.

Social Documentary Photography

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:32:14 UTC

Social Documentary Photography is a sub-genre of Documentary Photography, which usually refers to photography as a means to document historically important events (e.g. wars, political events). As a result, most people usually associate Documentary Photography with professional photojournalists or documentary makers. This is what I would define as ‘hard’ documentary photography.

The Scheimpflug Principle (Shime-p-floog)

ciaravfa — 2024-03-01 15:32:44 UTC

In simple terms, the Scheimpflug Principle involves he rotation of a lens about either its vertical (when the movement is called swings) or horizontal (called tilts) axis to adjust the plane of focus. On large format view cameras, these controls are found are both the front (lens) and rear (film) standards.

The Aesthetic Movement

ciaravfa — 2024-03-07 18:47:41 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

ciaravfa — 2024-03-07 18:48:10 UTC

Impressionism describes a style of painting developed in France during the mid-to-late 19th century; characterizations of the style include small, visible brushstrokes that offer the bare impression of form, unblended color and an emphasis on the accurate depiction of natural light.

Expressionism

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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

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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

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art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than its appearance or execution.

Dada Movement

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The Dada movement was established in Germany after World War I. It attempted to create a new kind of art that was valued primarily for its conceptual properties rather than focusing on aesthetics or literal documentation.

Düsseldorf School of Photography

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The Düsseldorf School, also known simply as the Becher School, set new standards for art photography.

Group f/64

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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

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Inspired by philosophers such as Roland Barthes, who had questioned the very idea of originality and authenticity in his manifesto The Death of the Author, this loose-knit group of artists set out to make art that analysed their relationship with popular culture and the mass media.

Straight Photography

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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.

Suprematism

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

Photorealism

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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

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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

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Synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena and that the colors in a painting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony.

Symbolism

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Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

Street Photography

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fantasy photos often feature surreal or magical elements, such as fairies, elves, goblins, and dragons.

Pet Photography

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In short, a pet photographer is a professional photographer who specialises in taking pictures of people's pets. In many instances, they are hired privately by pet owners to capture images of their companion animals that they can have as a keepsake.

Storm Photography

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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

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

Travel Photography

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

Pinhole Photography

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Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera.

Pinhole cameras are small or large, improvised or designed with great care. Cameras have been made of sea shells, many have been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers, at least one has been made of a discarded refrigerator. Cameras have been cast in plaster like a face mask, constructed from beautiful hardwoods, built in metal with bellows and a range of multiple pinholes. Station wagons have been used as pinhole cameras – and rooms in large buildings. Basically a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other.

Glamour Photography

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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

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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

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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

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Black light photography uses shorter wavelengths than the visible spectrum to highlight the subject.

Bodyscape Photography

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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. Dramatic lighting with deeps shadows, an abtract focus on single body parts, and a black background are the hallmarks of this style.

Forensic Photography

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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

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As a practice, Glitch Photography can be defined in two ways: (1) the documentation of glitches in digital platforms, displays, software, interfaces, workflows, and hardware; (2) the creative use of glitches and glitch processes in photographic production.

Computational Photography

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

The Mordancage Process

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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.

Real Estate Photography

ciaravfa — 2024-05-09 17:02:46 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

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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

ciaravfa — 2024-05-09 17:04:01 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

ciaravfa — 2024-05-09 17:04:31 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

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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.

Wildlife Photography

ciaravfa — 2024-05-09 17:06:00 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

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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

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

Brand Photography

ciaravfa — 2024-05-09 17:08:04 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

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What is long exposure photography

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.Aug 28, 2019