I often hear various complicated terms and important-sounding photography words being tossed around when I visit online photography forums, watch camera review videos.

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The d. PS Ultimate Guide to Photography Terms. A Post By: Simon Ringsmuth. I often hear various complicated terms and important- sounding photography words being tossed around when I visit online photography forums, watch camera review videos, and chat with other photographers over coffee or at the playground while our kids bounce around on the jungle gym. When I was first getting started in photography all these strange dictionary items confused me to no end. Sometimes it seemed like the more time I spent searching for answers the more confused I got.

What’s more, some people seemed to place an inordinate amount of meaning and importance to a few things that other photographers mostly ignored. To help make sense of the deep, complex waters of picture taking I thought it would be worthwhile to put together a glossary of common photography terms. Along with real- life definitions, I hope to provide new photographers and even seasoned shutterbugs a bit of a lighthouse by which to navigate.

Here, in alphabetical order, are some of the most common words and photography terms you may hear along with definitions that are designed to clear things up, not cause greater confusion. This is called a macro photograph. Want to know what that means?

Read on to find out. Pure Pwnage Episode 11. PHOTOGRAPHYLet’s start with the word photography itself, which has an interesting background. The word “photo” comes from the Greek word meaning light, and the word “graph” is derived from the Greek word meaning drawing. So photography is essentially drawing with light. Watch JCVD Online Flashx. The process involves capturing light with a physical medium such as film, or through electronic means with a microchip, in order to create an image that can be stored, shared, and reproduced. Light is focused by the use of a lens, which contains several glass elements arranged in a specific way so as to obtain a sharp image, and projected onto the capturing medium.

AEB OR AUTO EXPOSURE BRACKETINGMost of the time your goal is to capture an image that is properly exposed – that is, not too bright and not too dark. However, there are times when you might want to intentionally make a few different images of the same scene; one that is too dark, one that is too bright, and one that is, as Goldilocks might say, just right. AEB or Bracketing is one way to do that. Using this technique or setting on your camera, it will take a series of images that are under- and overexposed. You can then combine the images afterward in software like Lightroom or Photoshop to get the best parts of each of them into one finished picture.

APERTUREThe aperture is the opening in your camera lens. The bigger your aperture the less light you need in order to take a picture or the less time your shutter will need to stay open in order to collect enough light for the picture.

Think of two buckets sitting in the rain, each with a base 1. One also has a 1. Which one will fill with water first?

The bucket with a 1. To find the biggest aperture possible on your lens, look for a number on it that says something like f/3. Ironically, when measuring aperture size, a smaller number is better so a lens with an aperture of f/1. If your lens shows multiple values like f/3.

For more on aperture read: Seeing in Depth of Field: A Simple Understanding of Aperture. APERTURE PRIORITYPut your camera in Aperture Priority Mode (on Nikon cameras, turn the top dial to A, on Canons and others turn it to Av) and you can then set your desired aperture while your camera figures out the shutter speed and ISO required to have a properly exposed picture. Note: the camera will only choose the ISO for you if you are using Auto- ISO. If you do not you will need to select that also.

Want to take photos of your kids with blurry out- of- focus backgrounds? Put your camera in Aperture Priority, zoom all the way in with your lens, and turn the dial so the f- number is as small as possible.

Now focus on your kids and snap away. Want to take tack- sharp landscape photos? Use the same mode but zoom out with your lens and set the value to f/8 or f/1.

Shooting in Aperture Priority allowed me to select just the right aperture while letting my camera figure out the shutter speed and ISO. For more on using Aperture Priority read: Getting off Auto – Manual, Aperture, and Shutter Priority modes explained. AUTOFOCUS POINTSAutofocus points are all the tiny little dots or squares you see when you look through the viewfinder. Some cameras have a lot, some don’t have very many, but for practical purposes, the quantity doesn’t matter. If you are comparing cameras and one has 2. AF points while another has 9. AF points, both are perfectly capable of taking great pictures, though the latter will simply give you a little more flexibility.

Depending on whether you shoot portraits, landscapes, action, pets, food, or anything else, the ability to select your AF points can be really useful. You can tell your camera to use all of the AF points, just one specific point, or focus using a group of points (zone or area focusing). You can use your camera’s autofocus points to select a specific spot on which to focus, such as your subject’s eye when taking a portrait.

For more on autofocus points read; Understanding Normal and Cross- Type Focusing Points. BACK- BUTTON FOCUSOn most cameras, you press the shutter button down halfway to make it focus on your subject. But instead of doing this you can also set your camera to use a button on the rear of the camera, that you press with your thumb. It sounds a little counterintuitive and feels funny at first, but it’s a nice way to give yourself more control over your photography. Sports photographers and those doing night photography or portraits often use this technique.

Find out more about back- button focus here: Back- Button Focus: What it is and why you should try it. BOKEHBokeh is a fancy name for the blurry, out- of- focus, areas of a picture. For maximum bokeh use a wide aperture, get very close to your subject, and ensure the subject is far away from the background. Bokeh is what’s known as the blurry out- of- focus areas in the background (or sometimes foreground) of an image.

BULB MODEThis is a setting on your camera used for really long exposures. When in BULB Mode, your camera will open the shutter when the shutter button is pressed and then closes it when the button is released.

If you’re going to use this mode, it also helps to have some type of remote or cable release attached to your camera so it doesn’t pick up vibrations from your finger when you press the button. BURNINGBurning means to selectively make parts of a photo darker. The name comes from techniques used on photographic negatives in the days of printing in a darkroom, but now it’s usually just done in Photoshop, Lightroom, or another image processing program.

The left side of this image shows the original, and the burning technique was used on the right to make some areas darker and give the photo added contrast. Watch Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil Streaming. For more on burning (and dodging) read: What Are Burning And Dodging And How They Can Help Your Photos.

CHIMPINGChimping is checking your photos on the rear LCD screen of your camera constantly, often for no particular reason. It’s not a bad habit per se, but if you learn to stop doing this you will probably start to trust your instincts more and pay more attention to what’s in front of your camera rather than what’s on the screen. Try disabling the auto- review function on your camera and only review your images purposefully when you think you really need to (to check exposure, composition, etc.).

Doing so can be a bit like jumping into the deep end of the pool to learn how to swim, but it can be incredibly rewarding. CHROMATIC ABERRATIONThe lens in your camera works by focusing incoming beams of light. However, sometimes the different colors of light behave a bit strangely due to how different lenses are constructed. This can result in a phenomenon called chromatic aberration.