Digital Sports Photography: Take Winning Shots Every Time

Glossary

additive color:

Monitors add colors together to project light and can produce a larger spectrum of color than is possible to create by mixing colors on a printed page.

archival quality:

References to archival quality usually mean a print that will last between 60 and 80 years.

archival quality CDs:

Archival quality CDs are made with materials and to standards intended to allow them to last well over 100 to 150 years without degradation of quality.

ASA:

Film sensitivity was rated with ASA or, in Europe and some other places, with a DIN rating (DIN stands for Deutsche Industrie Norm, a German standards organization). ASA stands for the American Standards Association, which, like DIN, was replaced by the ISO rating.

backup media:

Backup media includes readable and read-write CDs, as well as writable DVDs that store six or seven times the amount of data as a CD. Other backup media include internal or external hard drives, removable media such as Zip disks, and even portable media such as the Apple iPod.

barn doors:

An attachment to the front of the modeling light consisting of multiple doors that can be moved to control where light is being cast on a scene.

batch processing:

Applies the same types of changes or modifications to all images in a folder (or drive).

calibration:

Monitor calibration corrects color display to established (ICC) standards.

card reader:

A card reader is a device that reads photo-storage cards and transfers data to a computer.

chrominance noise:

Very small, off-colored ...