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Export Preset
A saved combination of export settings applied in one action to ensure consistency and avoid errors.
Exposure & MeteringExposing to the Right (ETTR)
The technique of exposing as brightly as possible without clipping, then darkening in processing to maximise signal-to-noise ratio.
Exposure & MeteringExposure
The total amount of light that reaches the sensor or film, set by the combination of aperture, shutter speed and the scene's brightness.
Post-Processing & RetouchingExposure Adjustment
A processing control that brightens or darkens the whole image in stops, mimicking a change in camera exposure.
Exposure & MeteringExposure Compensation
A deliberate offset applied to the camera's metered reading, expressed in stops, to make an image brighter or darker than the meter…
Post-Processing & RetouchingExposure Fusion
Blending bracketed frames directly into a normal-range image by selecting the best-exposed pixels, without building an HDR file first.
Exposure & MeteringExposure Latitude
How far an exposure can miss the ideal and still produce an acceptable image after processing.
Exposure & MeteringExposure Simulation
A live-view or electronic-viewfinder mode that displays the scene at the brightness the current settings will actually record.
Exposure & MeteringExposure Triangle
The teaching model that links aperture, shutter speed and ISO as three interdependent controls, where changing one requires compensating…
Exposure & MeteringExposure Value (EV)
A single number describing every combination of aperture and shutter speed that produces the same exposure.
Exposure & MeteringExtended ISO
ISO settings outside a sensor's native range, marked with an L or H prefix, that are produced by digital manipulation rather than analogue…
Optics, Lenses & FiltersExtension Tube
A hollow spacer placed between lens and camera that shortens the minimum focus distance and increases magnification.
Focus & Depth of FieldEye AF
A refinement of face detection that locates and focuses on the eye itself, and usually lets the photographer choose which one.
Exposure & MeteringF-number
The ratio of a lens's focal length to the diameter of its entrance pupil, written f/2.8, f/8 and so on, and the standard way of stating…
Focus & Depth of FieldFace Detection
A system that identifies human faces in the frame and prioritises them for focus and often for exposure.
Sensors & Digital CaptureFalse Colour
Coloured artefacts appearing on fine detail, caused by the colour filter array sampling different colours at different positions.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFarm Security Administration
A United States government programme of the 1930s and 40s that commissioned photographers to document rural poverty during the Depression.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFashion Photography
Photography made to present clothing and to construct a mood or identity around it.
Lighting & FlashFeathering
Aiming a light so the subject is lit by the softer edge of its beam rather than its centre.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFibre-based Paper
Photographic paper whose emulsion is coated directly onto a paper base with no plastic layer.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsField Camera
A folding large-format camera built light enough to carry, trading some movement range for portability.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersField Curvature
A defect in which a lens focuses a flat subject onto a curved surface rather than the flat plane of the sensor.
Composition & Visual DesignFigure-Ground Relationship
The perceptual separation of a subject from its background, which determines whether it reads clearly.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowFile Naming Convention
A consistent rule for naming image files so they sort predictably and stay unique.