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EXIF -  standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras

TIFF -  computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general

Geotagged Photograph -  photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging

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Prime Lens (FFL) - a prime lens is either a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed

Wide- Angle Lens - a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane.

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Through-the-lens metering - photographic term describing a feature of cameras capable of measuring light levels in a scene through their taking lenses, as opposed to a separate metering window.

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35 mm camera - 35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography.

Bang Bang Club - The Bang Bang Club was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage.

Zoom lens -  zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens.

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery - The National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

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Freelancer - person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long-term

VII Photo Agency - photo agency representing 30 photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography

Realism - attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements

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Bauhaus: The Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus during the first years of its existence did not have an architecture department.
Telephoto Lens: specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length
Photomicrograph:  micrograph prepared using an optical microscope, a process referred to as photomicroscopy

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Vest Pocket Kodak: The Vest Pocket Kodak cameras were a best-selling folding camera series made by Eastman Kodak (Rochester), from 1912 to 1926. They were the first cameras to use the smaller 127 film reels.

Meniscus Lens: Convex-concave (meniscus) lenses can be either positive or negative, depending on the relative curvatures of the two surfaces. A negative meniscus lens has a steeper concave surface and will be thinner at the centre than at the periphery.

Rapid Rectilinear Lens (RR Lens): The Rapid Rectilinear is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups. It was introduced by John Henry Dallmeyer in 1866. The symmetry of the design greatly reduces radial distortion. 

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Photodetector - sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy

Infrared - electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, extending from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 700 nanometers (nm) to 1 mm

Light-emitting diode - two-lead semiconductor light source that resembles a basic pn-junction diode, except that an LED also emits light

Thermal imaging camera -  type of thermographic camera used in firefighting, by rendering infrared radiation as visible light, such cameras allow firefighters to see areas of heat through smoke, darkness, or heat-permeable barriers

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Panoramic Photography - technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view

Colour Banding - a problem of inaccurate color presentation in computer graphics

Dither -  intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images

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Magnum Photos: According to co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson, "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually."

Black Propaganda: Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy.

White Propaganda: White propaganda is propaganda which truthfully states its origin. It is the most common type of propaganda.

Grey Propaganda: grey propaganda is where the origin is not defined. usually you are skeptical whether or not the information on the true or false. figuratively, it is a mix between black and white propaganda. 

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Staged Photography: Photographs that capture staged or artificially constructed scenes made only for the purpose of photography. 

Tableau Photography: French phrase meaning “living picture.”

Pictorial Photography: an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. 

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Soft Focus - give the appearance of blurring the image while retaining sharp edges

Surrealism - cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings

Cropping - removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio

Anamorphic Format -  cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio

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GIF: a lossless format for compressing image files.

Zoopraxiscope:  zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector.

Kinetoscope: an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole.

Chronophotography: Chronophotography is an antique photographic technique from the Victorian era, which captures movement in several frames of print.

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Conceptual photography - type of photography that illustrates an idea

Stock photography - supply of photographs licensed for specific uses

Microstock photography - a part of the stock photography industry, they source their images almost exclusively via the Internet, do so from a wider range of photographers than the traditional stock agencies, and sell their images at a very low rate for a royalty-free image

iStock - online, royalty free, international microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model

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Pop Art - art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States

Dadaism - art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century

Photomontage - process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into an illusion of an unreal subject


Constructivism -  artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art

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