| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Burn | Darken an area |
| Dodge | Brighten an area |
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 |
