The way a lens blurs an image

The camera continues to take pictures as long as you hold down the button, or until the buffer is full

Refers to how much of an image is in focus

A piece of opaque plastic that sits over the top of a flashgun

How light or how dark an image is

A sheet or disc of colored plastic or glass that fits on the end of the lens to modify color or contrast on the subject

A burst of light

A chart that depicts how many light and dark pixels are in an image

The slot at the top of a camera for adding accessories

Determines how sensitive the camera is to light

An image that has been exposed for a long time, or uses a long shutter speed

The ability for a camera or lens to focus so near to the subject that it is captured life-size on the image sensor

Allows the photographer to set the exposure instead of having the camera do it automatically

Used the measure the brightness of the subject

Little flecks in an image, also sometimes called grain

A file type that gives the photographer more control over photo editing; a digital negative in data format

A file type that has been processed a bit, and is universal.  A smaller file that is considered an image.

A compositional rule that suggests imagining the image has been divided into three parts, both horizontally and vertically

The part of the camera that opens and closes to let light in and take a picture.  How long it stays open is written in seconds or fractions of a second

The process of removing unrealistic color casts so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo