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Byte
The standard unit for measuring the memory capacity of digital storage devices. Each byte can have one of 256 different values and is equal to eight bits.
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Butterfly lighting
A technique for lighting portraits achieved by pointing the flash down towards the front of the face and creating a distinctive butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose. A reflector is used to soften the shadow. This technique is also known as ‘Paramount lighting’ after the movie studio’s glamorous portraits from the 1930s.
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Burst rate
The continuous shooting speed of a digital camera, which enables a sequence of images to be taken in rapid succession, measured in frames per second (fps). The rate can only be sustained for a certain number of shots.
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Burn tool
A tool that can be used to darken parts of an image selectively during digital image manipulation. The tool gets its name (and its hand-shaped icon) from ‘burning- in’, a traditional darkroom process in which parts of a print could be made darker by giving some areas of a print more exposure than others. Also, see the Dodge tool.
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Buffer
Temporary memory used by a digital SLR. The size of the buffer in a camera helps dictate the maximum burst rate and the number of shots per burst.
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Brightness range
This is the difference between the brightness of the brightest part of the subject and the brightness of the darkest part of the subject. Also known as Subject Brightness
Range (SBR).
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Bridge camera
A camera that bridges the gap between compacts and D-SLRs. They are similar in appearance and handling to small D-SLRs, but they have a fixed, usually ‘super zoom’ lens, with some models offering up to 50x optical zoom. Instead of a D-SLR’s optical viewfinder, they have an electronic viewfinder.
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A system for increasing the chances of getting the correct exposure by taking a sequence of pictures with a slightly different exposure setting for each.
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Bounding box
In Photoshop, a rectangular border around a selected part of an image that can be dragged to transform, rotate, scale or move.
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Bounce flash
The indirect flash-lighting technique, where the flashgun is angled to bounce off a wall, ceiling, or another reflector. This scatters the illumination, creating a softer lighting effect.
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