Terms starting with F

9 terms in Photography

  • Fill light

    Photography › Lighting

    Fill light is a secondary light that brightens the shadows created by the key light, controlling contrast without adding new visible shadows.

  • Film photography

    Photography › History of photography

    Film photography records images on light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, developed chemically into negatives or slides, the dominant medium before digital.

  • Flash sync speed

    Photography › Flash photography

    Flash sync speed is the shortest exposure time at which the whole sensor is uncovered at once, so a single flash burst…

  • Flash trigger

    Photography › Flash photography

    A flash trigger in flash photography is a device that fires one or more flash units remotely when the camera shutter opens,…

  • Focal length

    Photography › Lenses & optics

    Focal length is the optical distance, in millimeters, that sets a lens's magnification and, with sensor size, its angle of view in…

  • Focus peaking

    Photography › Focus & autofocus

    Focus peaking is a manual focus aid that highlights high-contrast edges in the viewfinder to show which parts of the image are…

  • Focus stacking

    Photography › Focus & autofocus

    Focus stacking in photography merges several frames focused at different distances into one image with more depth of field than any single…

  • Framing

    Photography › Composition

    Framing in photography composition is the choice of image boundaries and the use of scene elements as a frame that encloses the…

  • Full frame

    Photography › Cameras & sensors

    Full frame is a 36 x 24 mm camera sensor format matching 35 mm film, the reference size for crop factor, lens…