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Photography techniques

Photography techniques refers to various methods of taking pictures through the use of different camera functions, lighting, angles and exposure time.

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Photography techniques

Fine

Photography; Photography techniques

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.

Histogram

Photography; Photography techniques

A graph that shows how many pixels there are for each level of brightness. The horizontal axis represents the brightness, and the left end is the pixels for the totally black areas. The right end is ...

Hood

Photography; Photography techniques

This is attached to the front of the lens to block out stray light entering the lens from outside the angle of view.

Image Browser Program

Photography; Photography techniques

Software which enables you to view and organize digital images. You can view thumbnails or enlarged images, change the order of images, select images to be saved, etc.

Image File

Photography; Photography techniques

The most common one is JPEG. The JPEG allows you to select the compression rate (Fine or Normal) so you can change the file size. The TIFF is the most common file which does not compress the image ...

Image Size

Photography; Photography techniques

The digital photo's image detail is determined by the height and width dimensions in pixels. For example, the maximum image size of a photo captured by a 8.2-megapixel digital camera will be 3504 ...

Imaging Engine

Photography; Photography techniques

Electronic circuit in the digital camera which processes the captured images (except RAW) to adjust the contrast, colour tones, sharpness, etc., before the image is recorded onto the memory card.

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