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Black and White Photography Field Guide
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Black and White Photography Field Guide

by Michael Freeman
July 2014
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
6h 21m
English
Routledge
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Glossary

ADJUSTMENT LAYER

A layer in a Photoshop image that adjusts the appearance of layers beneath it, and keeps editing adjustments separate from image data.

ALPHA CHANNEL

A grayscale version of the image that can be used with the color channels for saving a mask or selection.

APERTURE

The opening behind the camera lens through which light passes on its way to the image sensor (CCD/CMOS).

ARTIFACT

A flaw in a digital image.

BACKLIGHTING

The result of shooting with a light source, natural or artificial, behind the subject to create a silhouette or rim-lighting effect.

BIT (BINARY DIGIT)

The smallest data unit of binary computing, being a single 1 or 0.

BIT DEPTH

The number of bits of color data for each pixel in a digital image. A photographic-quality ...

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