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…
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…
R Rangefinder A camera with a separate lens and viewfinder, linked by a rangefinder mechanism. When looking through the viewfinder, two separate images are shown, one of which moves when the…
Q Quick-release plate A facility for attaching and removing a camera from a tripod. A plate attaches to the camera using the traditional screw-in arrangement, then the plate slots into a…
The ABC of Photography – O O OIS Optical image stabilization, the system used on Panasonic lenses to reduce camera shake. OLED Stands for organic light-emitting diode. OLED screens…
N Naturalistic photography An approach put forward in the 1880s by the English photographer Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936). He said that photographs should be direct and simple and reflect nature. He…
M Macro The term generally used to describe equipment for taking pictures at a closer shooting distance than usual, to provide a bigger image of the subject. Historically speaking, the…
A standard way of encoding information for storage in a computer file. File formats used in photography include JPEG, TIFF, PSD and GIF, all of which are suitable for particular uses.…
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…
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…
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…