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    This document provides definitions for photography and editing app terms. It defines key photography concepts like exposure, highlights, shadows, tones, contrast, white balance, perspective, and types of lighting. It also defines compositional techniques like the rule of thirds, symmetry, implied movement, and visual weight. Additionally, it defines common editing app terms like brightness, curves, saturation, and selective mask.

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    This document provides definitions for photography and editing app terms. It defines key photography concepts like exposure, highlights, shadows, tones, contrast, white balance, perspective, and types of lighting. It also defines compositional techniques like the rule of thirds, symmetry, implied movement, and visual weight. Additionally, it defines common editing app terms like brightness, curves, saturation, and selective mask.

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    GLOSSARY G E T TO K N OW T H E L A N G UAG E

    before hitting your camera. Ex.- shooting outside on


    a cloudy day is shooting in indirect light
    D E P T H : the distance of space in a photograph that
    will appear sharp. A shallow depth of field means the
    distance it will take for an object to go from sharp
    to blurry on your camera is very small, while a wide
    depth of field means the distance it will take for an
    object to go from sharp to blurry is farther
    C O M P O S I T I O N : the arrangement of objects around
    your scene
    S Y M M E T R Y: an invisible line that splits a symmetrical
    object in half
    R U L E O F T H I R D S : the idea that you should place
    the most important parts of your photograph either
    along the horizontal third lines of a photograph,
    the vertical third lines of a photograph, or at the
    intersection of a horizontal and vertical third line
    A C T U A L M O V E M E N T: an object physically
    in motion
    E X P O S U R E : the amount of light let into your camera I M P L I E D M O V E M E N T: the idea that objects can be
    H I G H L I G H T S : the brightest parts of your photograph arranged in a certain way within your photograph to
    mimic actual movement, thus guiding a viewer’s eye
    S H A D O W S : the darkest parts of your photograph
    around a scene
    M I D T O N E S : all the tones in between the shadows
    G R I D L I N E S : the lines on the screen of your camera
    and highlights
    (usually rule of thirds lines) that help to compose your
    T O N E S : the amount of lightness or darkness in subject in a compositionally interesting way
    a certain part of a photo
    V I S U A L W E I G H T: the idea that some objects can
    C O N T R A S T: the difference in tones of the feel heavier than others within a photograph
    highlights and shadows. High contrast means intense Balance: the idea that a photograph should have
    blacks and whites, while low contrast means a lot a balanced visual weight
    more grey tones.
    N E G AT I V E S PA C E : a part or parts of a photograph
    WHITE BALANCE: the process of adjusting the with nothing in it
    colors in an image so the whites appear pure white,
    M I C R O A D J U S T M E N T S : making tiny movements
    and the overall colors in the image appear as they
    of objects in your scene
    would in front of your eyes
    DY N A M I C : the idea that a photograph has energy
    P E R S P E C T I V E : the spatial relationship between
    and feels lively
    the camera and the objects in your image
    N AT U R A L L I G H T: light that comes from the sun,
    and not from electric lights
    EDITING APP TERMS

    S I N G L E L I G H T S O U R C E : having your light come B R I G H T N E S S : the amount of light in a photo


    from only one source (like the sun) and from only C U R V E S : a digital map of an image’s tonality.
    one direction Curves can be used to add brightness and/or
    D I R E C T L I G H T: light that goes directly from a light contrast to an image
    source into your camera. Ex.- shooting outside on S AT U R AT I O N : the amount of intensity a color has
    a sunny day is shooting in direct light
    S E L E C T I V E M A S K : an edit applied to a certain part
    I N D I R E C T L I G H T: light that passes through a filter of a photograph

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