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Weather 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.
Sensors & Digital CaptureX-Trans Filter
An alternative colour filter array using a six-by-six pattern with green in every row and column.
Files, Metadata & WorkflowXMP
An extensible metadata framework that stores descriptive data and editing instructions in a structured, readable form.
Exposure & MeteringZebra Stripes
A live-view overlay of diagonal stripes marking areas above a set brightness threshold, used to judge exposure before the shutter fires.
Focus & Depth of FieldZone AF
An area mode in which the camera selects automatically from a defined cluster of points rather than the whole frame.
Focus & Depth of FieldZone Focusing
Presetting a lens to a distance and aperture whose depth of field covers the range the subject will occupy, then shooting without focusing…
Exposure & MeteringZone System
Ansel Adams's method of dividing the tonal range into eleven zones and placing chosen subject tones deliberately on that scale.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesZoom Burst
Changing focal length during an exposure so the scene appears to explode outward from the centre.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersZoom Lens
A lens whose focal length can be varied continuously across a range while holding focus.