Terms starting with H

5 terms in Photography

  • Hard light

    Photography › Lighting

    Hard light is light from a source that is small relative to the subject, producing sharp-edged shadows, bright specular highlights and strong…

  • HDR photography

    Photography › Photography techniques

    HDR photography captures and renders scenes whose brightness range exceeds a single exposure, usually by merging bracketed frames and tone mapping them.

  • High-speed sync

    Photography › Flash photography

    High-speed sync is a flash mode that pulses the flash rapidly so it can light the whole frame at shutter speeds faster…

  • Highlight recovery

    Photography › Image processing

    Highlight recovery in image processing restores detail in very bright areas of a photo by using unclipped raw data, channel reconstruction and…

  • Hyperfocal distance

    Photography › Lenses & optics

    Hyperfocal distance is the closest focus distance at which a lens keeps everything from about half that distance to infinity acceptably sharp.