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Important DSLR and general photography term explanations.

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Company: Canon, Inc.

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A collection of digital data stored under a single name. A digital photo is an image file. The amount of the digital data is called the file size.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Outdoor portraits with the sun behind the subject or with a bright background can cause the face to look dark. In such cases, set the exposure for the background and use flash for the face. The ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Other than the image resolution, the photo's image quality (Fine or Normal) can also be set with the digital SLR camera. The Fine setting yields better image quality.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A wide angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

The light entering directly into the camera lens is reflected internally causing a whitish color cast over the image. This can be alleviated to some degree with a lens hood or hand blocking out the ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Artificial illumination lasting for only an instant. It is close to daylight type of light. Since the flash is a very bright light fired for a very short moment, it can freeze a moving subject like ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Expressed in millimeters (mm), this refers to how much of the scene can be captured by the lens. It is the distance between the lens' theoretical center to the imaging sensor. If the focal length is ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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