Photography Terms

Telling the story with photos.

A very small unit of measurement in capturing digital images and displaying digital images.

Measure of number of pixels in an image. Higher resolution gives more detail and doesn't lose quality.

Color format meaning red, green, blue. RGB will be converted to CMYK before printed.

Function on the camera that compensates for different colors of light being emitted by various light sources.

An activity photo in which the subjects are informal, spontaneous and un-posed

relates to the four color or full color printing process using a mix of cyan, magenta, yellow and black to make full color pages

photo printed in a color other than black

a photograph in full color

the range of tones between black and white areas in a photo

to eliminate portions of an illustration or photo to fit a specific area or to capture only a portion of the photo on a yearbook

a process that isolates your subject

measurement scale for resolution of output devices such as monitors, laser printed and image setters

: process whereby an original black and white picture is printed black, plus one additional color for a special effect

the amount of light collected by the sensor in a camera during a single picture

sharpness of a subject

photo with an overall light appearance so that words or autographs can be printed over them and still be readable

: reproduction of a continuous tone image made by a screen pattern to convert a color image into various size dots to create a reproducible

: a graphic representation of how bright and dark pixels are distributed in an image