Terms starting with N
12 terms
Nano Coating
A coating built from structures smaller than the wavelength of light, creating an extremely low refractive index layer that almost…
Exposure & MeteringNative ISO
Any ISO value produced by real analogue gain in the sensor's readout circuitry, as opposed to numbers created by brightening the file in…
Composition & Visual DesignNegative Space
The empty or unoccupied area surrounding the subject, which gives it room and defines its shape.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersNeutral Density Filter
A grey filter that reduces the amount of light entering the lens uniformly across all wavelengths, without altering colour.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Colour Photography
The movement of the 1970s that established colour as a serious medium for art photography rather than a commercial or amateur one.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Objectivity
A German movement of the 1920s favouring clear, unsentimental description of the world, often in close-up and typological form.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Topographics
A 1975 exhibition and the approach it named, photographing the altered landscape — suburbs, industrial parks, car parks — in a deliberately…
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Vision
An interwar movement, associated with the Bauhaus, that treated the camera as a device for seeing in ways the eye cannot.
Sensors & Digital CaptureNoise Floor
The level of background noise below which no real signal can be distinguished.
Post-Processing & RetouchingNon-destructive Editing
An approach in which adjustments are stored as instructions rather than being written into the pixels of the original file.
Printing, Display & OutputNozzle Check
A test pattern printed to confirm that every ink channel is firing correctly.
Sensors & Digital CaptureNyquist Limit
The highest spatial frequency a sensor can record correctly, equal to half its sampling rate.