{"id":6650,"date":"2017-05-26T07:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.snapfish.com.au\/?p=6650\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2017-05-26T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:21:01","slug":"12-digital-photography-terms-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/12-digital-photography-terms-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Digital Photography Terms You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aside from finding the perfect camera, lighting, and inspiration, one of the biggest challenges is learning and understanding photography vocab. No matter how advanced your photography skills may be, knowing the key terms can reshape\u00a0your understanding of the art. Once you put this knowledge into practice, you\u2019ll never look back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s\u00a0a list of photography terms, which will have you feeling like a pro in no time.<\/p>\n

Ambient Light<\/strong>
\nSimply put, the \u2018light in the scene\u2019 or better referred to as \u2018natural light\u2019. This is different from the light provided by the photographer via flashes and photofloods.<\/p>\n

Aperture<\/strong>
\nThe adjustment of the lense, allowing as much or as little light in. The wider the aperture setting is, the shallower the depth of field in the image captured.<\/p>\n

Artificial Light<\/strong>
\nA fairly self explanatory term. Artificial light is anything that is not considered natural light. Meaning, flashes, ceiling lights, street lamps are all considered artificial light.<\/p>\n

Auto-Focus<\/strong>
\nRefers to the camera finding the focus of the shot for you. It\u2019s very easy to do and a great technique for beginners. Simply press the \u2018take button\u2019 half down and allow the camera lense to focus automatically, then follow through to take the photo.<\/p>\n

Exposure<\/strong>
\nThe exposure is the amount of light that hits a camera\u2019s centre. Ever wondered why your photos appear overly \u2018white\u2019, it could be due to high exposure.<\/p>\n

Landscape Mode
\n<\/strong>As the name suggests, landscape mode is when the image is oriented horizontally.<\/p>\n

Portrait Mode<\/strong>
\nOpposite to landscape mode, these are images taken with a camera when in a vertical facing position.<\/p>\n

Noise<\/strong>
\nThe noise would be the pixels in your digital image that were \u201cmisinterpreted.\u201d With noise reduction features, cameras eliminate random pixels and other image noise.<\/p>\n

Overexposed<\/strong>
\nThis happens when an image, or part of it, is totally white. This can occur when there is too much light exposed to the camera. It can happen for a variety of reasons, the shutter speed or f\/stop may be too low or your ISO is too high.<\/p>\n

Resolution<\/strong>
\nRefers to the quality and clarity of the image. If you want to go down the path of one day printing your photos, best to have them as high resolution as possible so they\u2019re nice and clear.<\/p>\n

Shutter Speed<\/strong>
\nThis is a simple one. Shutter speed is quite literally the speed in which the shutter opens and closes. The shutter speed affects how much light can get into the camera for that photo.<\/p>\n

White Balance<\/strong>
\nLight is not all white. When referring to white balance, it\u2019s the ability to adjust colour so the image appears more \u2018natural\u2019.<\/p>\n

Are you feeling more confident about your photography vocab? Try putting these terms into practice next time your behind the lense & show us your incredible photos by tagging us on Instagram #snapfishaunz<\/a> or posting to our Facebook<\/a> page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from finding the perfect camera, lighting, and inspiration, one of the biggest challenges is learning and understanding photography vocab. No matter how advanced your photography skills may be, knowing the key terms can reshape\u00a0your understanding of the art. Once you put this knowledge into practice, you\u2019ll never look back.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1968],"tags":[],"blog_region":[],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"blog_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_region?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}