What is Photography?
Photography is the process of making photographs by exposing light over a controlled amount of time to a light-sensitive medium, such as a digital sensor or photographic film. This is done through a device known…
Red-eye
Red-eye An effect often caused by a camera’s built-in flash. The flashlight reflects from the retina of the subjects’ eyes and gives them a bright red colour. It can be…
The ABC of Photography – Z
The ABC of Photography – Z ZA Stands for Zeiss Alpha – a range of Sony lenses designed by Carl Zeiss. Zone system The Zone system is a systematic technique…
The ABC of Photography – Y
The ABC of Photography – Y Yellow filter In film photography, yellow filters were often used by black-and-white landscape photographers to darken a blue sky and brighten the landscape.…
The ABC of Photography – X
The ABC of Photography – X XLD Stands for extra-low dispersion, the glass used in some Tamron lenses to reduce chromatic aberration. XMP Stands for an extensible metadata platform.…
The ABC of Photography – W
The ABC of Photography – W Watermark An element embedded in a digital image, such as a name or symbol, to show ownership and prevent images being used without…
The ABC of Photography – V
The ABC of Photography – V Variable contrast A type of photographic printing paper that, in the wet darkroom, allows a range of contrast grades to be produced by…
The ABC of Photography – U
The ABC of Photography – U UD Stands for ultra-low dispersion, a type of glass used in Canon lenses to reduce chromatic aberration in the image. Umbrella An umbrella…
The ABC of Photography – T
The ABC of Photography – T T Table-top photography Images of small objects or a miniature scene arranged on a tabletop. Teleconverter A supplementary lens used between a primary…
The ABC of Photography – S
S Sabattier effect A wet darkroom effect in which an image is processed so that it’s partly a normal positive image and partly a negative. It was first described…
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