the part of a scene or picture that is farthest from the viewer : the part of a scene that is behind a main figure or object in a painting, photograph, etc. In photography the background is the part of the overall scene. It’s behind the main subject of the photograph. Proper design and use is ...
Balance is a compositional technique in photography that juxtaposes images within a frame so that the objects are of equal visual weight, which means that it is a distribution of visual elements throughout an image that lets a viewer’s eyes scan the entire frame without being drawn too much to one ...
The dominant subject in photography is the main subject in a picture placed at the center of the frame so that there is space at the top and at the bottom. The space at the top is twice as much as the space at the bottom. In order to make your main subject dominate the scene, one should make his or ...
A Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not ...
The distance between the closest and furthest points in an image that are in ‘acceptable focus’. In every picture there is a certain area of your image in front of, and behind the subject that will appear in focus. This zone will vary from photo to photo. Some images may have very small ...
Having a deep depth of field is to have a large amount of the image in focus. When the aperture is small (ex. f/16), the image has a deep or large depth of field. This means that the focus range covers a large area front-to-back, from several yards in front of the focus plane to nearly infinity ...
A colored glass or other transparent material used to select the wavelengths of light allowed to reach a photosensitive material. Camera lens filters are a photography accessory that are attached over the lens of a camera. They come in different shapes and forms, including polarizing filters to ...
