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Frame Rate
The number of individual frames recorded or played back per second.
Composition & Visual DesignFrame Within a Frame
Using an element in the scene — a doorway, arch, window or overhanging branch — to surround and isolate the subject.
Printing, Display & OutputFraming Glass
The transparent glazing that protects a framed print, available in grades differing in reflection and ultraviolet filtering.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesFreelensing
Detaching a lens from the camera and holding it in front of the mount, tilting it to create selective focus and light leaks.
Post-Processing & RetouchingFrequency Separation
A retouching technique that splits an image into a blurred low-frequency layer of tone and colour and a high-frequency layer of texture.
Focus & Depth of FieldFront Focus
A calibration error in which a lens consistently focuses slightly nearer than the intended subject.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsFull Frame
A sensor the same size as a 35 mm film negative, 36 by 24 millimetres, treated as the reference format for focal length and depth of field.
Sensors & Digital CaptureFull-well Capacity
The maximum number of electrons a photosite can hold before it saturates and stops responding to further light.
Colour & Colour ManagementGamma
The non-linear relationship between stored numerical values and displayed brightness in a colour space or on a device.
Colour & Colour ManagementGamut
The complete range of colours a device, medium or colour space can produce or record.
Colour & Colour ManagementGamut Mapping
The process of converting colours from a larger space into a smaller one while preserving as much of the image's appearance as possible.
Printing, Display & OutputGamut Warning
A soft-proofing overlay that flags pixels whose colours the destination profile cannot reproduce.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowGeotagging
Recording the latitude, longitude and sometimes altitude of an image's capture point in its metadata.
Composition & Visual DesignGestalt Principles
A set of observations from perceptual psychology describing how the visual system groups separate elements into wholes.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersGhosting
Distinct secondary images of a bright light source formed by reflections bouncing between lens element surfaces.
Printing, Display & OutputGiclée
A marketing term for a fine-art inkjet print, generally implying pigment inks on archival paper.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsGimbal Head
A tripod head that supports a long lens at its centre of gravity, letting it swing weightlessly in two axes.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesGimbal Stabiliser
A motorised three-axis mount that holds a camera level and steady while the operator moves.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsGlobal Shutter
An electronic shutter that starts and stops the exposure for every photosite at exactly the same instant.
Printing, Display & OutputGloss Differential
A visible difference in surface sheen between inked and uninked areas of a glossy print.
Printing, Display & OutputGlossy Paper
Paper with a smooth, highly reflective surface that maximises apparent contrast and colour saturation.
Lighting & FlashGobo
An opaque cut-out or template placed in a light's beam to cast a shaped pattern onto a subject or background.
Lighting & FlashGolden Hour
The period shortly after sunrise and before sunset when the sun is low, and its light is warm, soft and strongly directional.
Composition & Visual DesignGolden Ratio
The proportion of approximately 1:1.618 that has been used in art and architecture as a compositional division.