The ABC of Photography – Byte
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. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield…
The ABC of Photography – Butterfly lighting
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 ABC of Photography – Burst rate
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…
The ABC of Photography – Burn tool
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…
The ABC of Photography – Buffer
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. Sources: Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield…
The ABC of Photography – Bridge camera
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…
The ABC of Photography – B (Bulb)
The ABC of Photography - B (Bulb) The Bulb setting (abbreviated B) on camera shutters is a momentary-action mode that holds shutters open for as long as a photographer depresses the shutter-release button. The Bulb…
The ABC of Photography – B
B B (Bulb) The Bulb setting (abbreviated B) on camera shutters is a momentary-action mode that holds shutters open for as long as a photographer depresses the shutter-release button. The Bulb setting is…