Clone Stamp

Weekly Vocabulary 4/2

1. Vest Pocket Kodak: Common camera that was easily concealable and small. It was commonly used during World War I

2. Meniscus Lens: a convex-concave lens and is thicker at the center than at the edges

3. Rapid Rectinear Lens (RR Lens): a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups

Weekly Vocabulary 3/28

1. Photodetector: sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy

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

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

4.Thermal imaging camera:  a 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.

Weekly Vocabulary 3/21

1. Panoramic Photography: a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view 

2. Colour Banding:a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics. In 24 bit colour modes, 8 bits per channel is usually considered sufficient to render images in Rec. 709 or sRGB.  

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

Jump photo

Weekly Vocabulary 3/14

Magnum Photo: International photographic cooperative that shares human quality, what is going on in the world, and respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually

Black Propaganda: False information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of conflict, and suppress the opposing side

White Propaganda: Truthful states that are used in order to convince others through persuasion.

Grey Propaganda:  Propaganda that does not identify its source

Weekly Vocabulary 3/7

Staged Photography: Photos taken of a set stage

Tableau Photography:  A picture grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene

Pictorial photography: An international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the 19th and early 20th centuries