Photography terms starting with W

Warm and Cool Colours Colour & Colour Management The perceptual division of the spectrum into warm reds, oranges and yellows and cool blues, greens and violets.

Water Drop Photography Motion, Video & Creative Techniques ms High-speed macro photography of falling liquid, capturing splashes, crowns and colliding droplets.

Watermark Files, Metadata & Workflow % A visible mark overlaid on an image to identify its creator or deter unauthorised use.

Waveform Monitor Motion, Video & Creative Techniques IRE A display plotting the brightness of an image against its horizontal position, used to judge exposure precisely.

Weather Sealing Cameras, Formats & Systems Gaskets and overlapping construction that resist the entry of dust and moisture into a camera or lens.

Web Gallery Files, Metadata & Workflow count An online presentation of a set of images for client review, selection or delivery.

WebP Files, Metadata & Workflow MB A web-oriented format offering both lossy and lossless compression at smaller sizes than JPEG and PNG respectively.

Wedding Photography Genres, Movements & Theory Photography covering a marriage ceremony and its surrounding events, combining documentary, portrait and detail work.

Wet Plate Collodion Film, Darkroom & Historic Processes A process in which a glass plate is coated with collodion, sensitised, exposed and developed while still wet.

White Balance Colour & Colour Management K and tint The adjustment that makes a neutral subject render as neutral, compensating for the colour of the light illuminating it.

White Balance Bracketing Colour & Colour Management mired steps Recording several versions of one frame at different white balance settings.

White Balance Preset Colour & Colour Management K A fixed white balance setting named for a common lighting condition, such as daylight, cloudy, shade, tungsten or flash.

White Level Sensors & Digital Capture ADU The numerical value at which a sensor's photosites are considered saturated, defining the clipping point of a raw file.

White Point Colour & Colour Management K / CIE xy The chromaticity that a colour space or display treats as neutral white.

Whites and Blacks Post-Processing & Retouching stops Raw processing sliders that set the extreme ends of the tonal range, independently of the highlight and shadow controls.

Wide-angle Lens Optics, Lenses & Filters mm A lens with a focal length shorter than the format's diagonal, taking in a broader view than the eye's natural perspective.

Wide-area AF Focus & Depth of Field An area mode in which the camera considers the entire frame when choosing what to focus on.

Wildlife Photography Genres, Movements & Theory Photography of animals in their natural environment, generally without interference or baiting.

Working Distance Focus & Depth of Field mm The clear space between the front of the lens and the subject at closest focus. Working distance = MFD − lens length − flange depth

Working Space Colour & Colour Management The colour space in which editing is performed, chosen for its gamut and neutrality rather than for display or output.

Terms starting with W