Terms starting with C
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Colour Checker
A card of printed patches with known colour values, photographed in a scene to allow accurate colour correction and profiling.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Constancy
The perceptual effect by which an object keeps its apparent colour across widely different illuminants.
Sensors & Digital CaptureColour Filter Array
A mosaic of coloured filters over the photosites that allows a monochrome sensor to record colour.
Lighting & FlashColour Gel
A translucent coloured sheet placed over a light to change the colour of its output.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Grading
The deliberate shaping of an image's colour for stylistic effect, as distinct from correcting it toward accuracy.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Harmony
A relationship between the colours in an image that the viewer perceives as coherent rather than accidental.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowColour Label
A coloured tag applied to a file to indicate its status in a workflow, independently of its quality rating.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Management
The system of profiles and conversions that keeps colour consistent as an image moves between camera, screen, printer and web.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesColour Negative Film
Film that records a colour image with tones and colours inverted, printed or scanned to produce a positive.
Post-Processing & RetouchingColour Noise Reduction
Processing that removes the random coloured speckles that appear in shadows and at high sensitivity.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Rendering Index
A score out of 100 describing how faithfully a light source reveals the colours of objects compared with a reference illuminant.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesColour Reversal Film
Film that produces a positive transparency directly, viewable and projectable without printing.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Space
A defined set of colours, described by primaries, a white point and a transfer function, within which numerical colour values have a…
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Temperature
A measure of the colour of a light source, expressed as the temperature of a theoretical black body radiating the same hue.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersComa
An aberration that renders off-axis points of light as asymmetric comet-shaped smears rather than dots.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsCompact Camera
A small fixed-lens camera designed to be carried everywhere, with automatic exposure and focus as the default.
Colour & Colour ManagementComplementary Colours
Pairs of colours sitting opposite each other on the colour wheel, which produce maximum contrast when placed together.
Post-Processing & RetouchingCompositing
Combining elements from several photographs into a single image.
Composition & Visual DesignComposition
The arrangement of elements within the frame, and the decisions about what to include, exclude and where to place things.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowCompression Artefact
Visible distortion introduced by lossy compression, such as blocking, ringing or colour smearing.
Genres, Movements & TheoryConceptual Photography
Photography in which the governing idea precedes and directs the image, rather than the image being discovered.
Genres, Movements & TheoryConsent and Privacy
The question of when a person's permission is required to photograph them and to publish the result.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesContact Print
A print made with the negative in direct contact with the paper, producing an image the same size as the negative.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesContact Sheet
A print made by laying an entire strip or roll of negatives directly on paper, showing every frame at negative size.