📐Focal Length

The distance from the lens to the sensor, determining magnification.

🎯Focus

Adjusting the lens to make the subject appear sharp.

🖼️Framing

Using elements in the scene to surround the subject.

🖼️Full-Frame Sensor

A sensor the size of traditional 35mm film.

🎯Gimbal

A stabilizing device that keeps a camera level.

🌅Golden Hour

The period shortly after sunrise or before sunset with warm light.

🌈HDR

High dynamic range imaging combining multiple exposures.

📊Histogram

A graph showing the tonal distribution of an image.

🖥️Image Editing

Modifying a photograph after capture.

🔲Image Sensor

A device that converts light into an electronic signal.

📊ISO

A measure of the camera sensor's sensitivity to light.

🖼️JPEG

A common compressed image file format.

🏞️Landscape

A photograph of natural scenery.

🖥️LCD Screen

A display on a camera for reviewing and composing images.

➡️Leading Lines

Lines in an image that guide the viewer's eye.

🔍Lens

An optical element that focuses light onto the camera sensor or film.

🐜Macro Lens

A lens designed for close-up photography of small subjects.

✋Manual Focus

Adjusting the lens focus by hand.

🔢Megapixel

A unit of image resolution equal to one million pixels.

💾Memory Card

A storage device for saving digital photographs.

🏷️Metadata

Data embedded in an image file describing camera settings and more.

🦯Monopod

A single-legged support for a camera.

🌗Negative

A film image with inverted tones used to make prints.

🧹Noise Reduction

Removing grain or digital noise from an image.

🔆Overexposure

An image that is too bright due to excessive light.

🌄Panorama

A wide-angle image stitched from multiple photographs.

📐Perspective

The relationship between objects in an image as seen by the camera.

🖼️Photograph

An image created by recording light on a sensitive surface.

📰Photojournalism

The practice of telling news stories through photographs.

🔹Pixel

The smallest unit of a digital image.