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Photo Black and Matte Black
Two distinct black inks formulated for glossy and matte papers respectively, only one of which can be active at a time on many printers.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhoto Essay
A sequence of photographs arranged to develop an argument or narrative that no single image could carry.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhoto-Secession
A group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902 to promote photography as a fine art.
Printing, Display & OutputPhotobook
A bound sequence of photographs designed to be read as a whole rather than viewed as individual prints.
Sensors & Digital CapturePhotodiode
The semiconductor junction within a photosite that converts arriving photons into electrical charge.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesPhotogram
An image made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing it to light, without a camera.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesPhotogrammetry
Deriving three-dimensional measurements and models from a set of overlapping photographs.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Ethics
The body of principles governing how photographers treat subjects, audiences and the truthfulness of their images.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesPhotographic Paper
Paper coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, used to make prints from negatives.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Series
A set of images made to a consistent rule or format, where the repetition itself carries meaning.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Truth
The contested assumption that a photograph is a reliable record of what was in front of the camera.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotojournalism
Photography made to report news, bound by professional standards of accuracy and non-interference.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesPhotomicrography
Photography through a microscope, recording subjects at magnifications far beyond macro.
Sensors & Digital CapturePhotosite
A single light-collecting element on a sensor, corresponding to one pixel in the final image.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowPick Flag
A binary marker used during a first culling pass to separate keepers from rejects.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPictorialism
A movement from the 1880s to the 1910s that sought recognition for photography as art by imitating painting and printmaking.
Printing, Display & OutputPigment Ink
Ink in which the colourant is solid particles suspended in a carrier, sitting on the paper surface rather than dissolving into it.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersPincushion Distortion
A geometric distortion in which straight lines bend inward toward the centre, pinching the frame corners outward.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsPinhole Camera
A lensless camera that forms an image through a tiny aperture, giving infinite depth of field and extremely long exposures.
Sensors & Digital CapturePixel Binning
Combining the signal from several adjacent photosites into one output pixel to improve signal-to-noise ratio.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowPixel Dimensions
The width and height of an image measured in pixels, which is its only fixed measure of size.
Sensors & Digital CapturePixel Pitch
The centre-to-centre distance between adjacent photosites on a sensor.
Sensors & Digital CapturePixel Shift Multi-shot
A mode that moves the sensor by precise sub-pixel amounts between exposures and combines the frames into one higher-quality image.
Focus & Depth of FieldPlane of Focus
The flat surface, parallel to the sensor, at which the subject is rendered with maximum sharpness.