Photography Acronyms Flashcards
Common Photographic Acronyms
DSLR
Digital single lens reflex. An SLR camera that has a digital sensor, rather than film.
P&S
Point-and-shoot camera. A small, consumer level camera that is easy to use, to the point of only needing to point and shoot. Lacks a lot of the advanced features of SLR cameras.
B&W
Black and white. An image without colour, but made up of tones of black and white.
HDR
High dynamic range. A style of shooting that involves combining multiple exposures to achieve greater dynamic range.
DOF
Depth of Field. The range of focus in your image. How much of your image is sharp in front of and behind the point you’re focused on.
AF
Auto-focus. The ability of a lens, or camera, to automatically focus on a subject.
OOF
Out of focus. An image that isn’t in focus, or referring to specific areas in the image that aren’t in focus.
OCF
Off-camera flash. The use of external flashes that aren’t mounted on top of the camera.
PP
Post-processing. Using software to edit an image on the computer.
SOOC
Straight out of camera. An image that hasn’t yet had any post processing done to it.
ACR
Adobe Camera Raw. A program used to made edits to RAW camera files.
PS
A program made by Adobe to edit photos.
LR
Lightroom. An editing program made by Adobe.
JPG / JPEG
A common file format for picture images. Pronounced “j-peg”. Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, who created it.
RAW
A file format that records all possible data from the camera sensor. Differs from a JPEG, in that with a JPEG some original image data is lost due to compression. RAW files have many different filename extensions, like .cr2 (Canon), .nef (Nikon) and .arw (Sony).
