Term | Description |
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Burn | Darken an area |
Dodge | Brighten an area |
Acronym | Description |
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ACR | Adobe Camera Raw |
AF | Autofocus |
BG | Background |
BOAS | Bird on a Stick |
CA | Chromatic Aberration |
C&C | Comments and Critiques |
CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black: The common color system used in offset press printing. |
CPL | Circular polarizing filter |
DOF | Depth of field |
DVNP | Death Valley National Park |
EFL | Effective Focal Length |
EV | Exposure Value - used as a measure of exposure compensation. 1 EV=1 stop |
EXIF | Exchangeable Image Format - descriptive data stored in an image file |
FG | Foreground |
GN | Guide Number |
GRD | Graduated Neutral Density Filter |
HDR | High Dynamic Range |
HH | Hand Held |
HSL | Hue, Saturation, Luminance |
ICC | International Color Consortium |
ICM | Intentional Camera Movement |
IQ | Image Quality |
JTNP | Joshua Tree National Park |
LF | Large Format |
LLC | Lower left corner |
LR | Lightroom |
LRC | Lower right corner |
MF | Manual Focus |
ND | Neutral density - a filter that reduces light intensity affecting all colors equally. |
NWR | National Wildlife Refuge |
OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
OOF | Out of focus |
OP | Original poster |
POF | Point of focus or Plane of focus |
PS | Photoshop |
PSD | Adobe Photo Shop image file, file extension |
PSB | Adobe Photo Shop Large File, file extension |
RAW | The camera’s native file format. It’s full bit depth so no information is lost by conversion to a compressed format. |
RGB | Red, Green, Blue: The common color system used to edit images. |
RMNP | Rocky Mountain National Park |
SS | Shutter Speed |
TC | Teleconverter |
TIF | Tag Image File, file type extension |
TIFF | Tag Image File Format |
ULC | Upper left corner |
URC | Upper right corner |
YNP | Yellowstone National Park |
WB | White Balance |