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. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield Lamar High School
Bounding box In Photoshop, a rectangular border around a selected part of an image that can be dragged to transform, rotate, scale or move. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield Lamar High School
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. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield…
Bokeh Derived from the Japanese word for ‘blur’, this term is used to describe the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas of a picture, or the lens creating them. Smooth, circular out-of-focus highlights are a…
Blown out Bright areas in a photo that are over-exposed are said to be blown out. They won’t hold any detail and will be bleached white. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield Lamar High…
Blending mode Blending modes determine how the pixels in a layer interact with the underlying pixels on other layers instead of simply covering them. Some blending modes are much more useful for photo editing than others.…
The ABC of Photography - Bit Bit The basic unit from which any digital piece of data is made. Each bit has a value of either 0 or 1. The…
Bellows A concertinaed tube made of flexible, light-proof material that separates a lens from the camera body. Bellows were first used on very early cameras in the mid-19th century, and…
Beauty dish A studio lighting device used to give a flattering effect in portrait and fashion photography. It consists of a large circular dish-shaped reflector, usually around 40-50cm in diameter, with a light source in the…
Barrel distortion Barrel distortion is a lens fault or aberration that causes straight, parallel lines in an image to bow outward, and is seen when shooting with wide-angle lenses. The wider the lens, the greater…