Terms starting with W
20 terms
Warm and Cool Colours
The perceptual division of the spectrum into warm reds, oranges and yellows and cool blues, greens and violets.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesWater Drop Photography
High-speed macro photography of falling liquid, capturing splashes, crowns and colliding droplets.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowWatermark
A visible mark overlaid on an image to identify its creator or deter unauthorised use.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesWaveform Monitor
A display plotting the brightness of an image against its horizontal position, used to judge exposure precisely.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsWeather Sealing
Gaskets and overlapping construction that resist the entry of dust and moisture into a camera or lens.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowWeb Gallery
An online presentation of a set of images for client review, selection or delivery.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowWebP
A web-oriented format offering both lossy and lossless compression at smaller sizes than JPEG and PNG respectively.
Genres, Movements & TheoryWedding Photography
Photography covering a marriage ceremony and its surrounding events, combining documentary, portrait and detail work.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesWet Plate Collodion
A process in which a glass plate is coated with collodion, sensitised, exposed and developed while still wet.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Balance
The adjustment that makes a neutral subject render as neutral, compensating for the colour of the light illuminating it.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Balance Bracketing
Recording several versions of one frame at different white balance settings.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Balance Preset
A fixed white balance setting named for a common lighting condition, such as daylight, cloudy, shade, tungsten or flash.
Sensors & Digital CaptureWhite Level
The numerical value at which a sensor's photosites are considered saturated, defining the clipping point of a raw file.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Point
The chromaticity that a colour space or display treats as neutral white.
Post-Processing & RetouchingWhites and Blacks
Raw processing sliders that set the extreme ends of the tonal range, independently of the highlight and shadow controls.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersWide-angle Lens
A lens with a focal length shorter than the format's diagonal, taking in a broader view than the eye's natural perspective.
Focus & Depth of FieldWide-area AF
An area mode in which the camera considers the entire frame when choosing what to focus on.
Genres, Movements & TheoryWildlife Photography
Photography of animals in their natural environment, generally without interference or baiting.
Focus & Depth of FieldWorking Distance
The clear space between the front of the lens and the subject at closest focus.
Colour & Colour ManagementWorking Space
The colour space in which editing is performed, chosen for its gamut and neutrality rather than for display or output.