Weekly Vocab

Light - Emitting Diode (LED):  a two-lead semiconductor light source; often used in traffic lights and on the brake/headlights of cars. Its multitude of bright color capacity makes it ideal for displays such as this:



Infrared (IR): electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light; often used in thermal imaging and space imaging devices



Photodetector: sensor of light or other electromagnetic energy



Thermal Imaging Camera (TIC): a type of thermographic camera which renders infrared light as visible light, allowing firefighters in particular to see heat through smoke, darkness, or heat-permeable barriers. They are typically handheld or helmet-mounted

Panoramic

Weekly Vocab

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


Colour Banding:  a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics.



Dither:  an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images (see above for colour banding)

Weekly Vocab

Magnum Photos:  an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York,Paris, London and Tokyo. Co-founded by Henri-Cartier Bresson and Robert (Friedman) Capa.


Black Propaganda:  false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy.


White Propaganda: Most common type of propaganda which truthfully states its origin, and generally comes from an openly identified source


Grey Propaganda: Propaganda which does not identify its source; is ambiguous.

Jump Picture

Weekly Vocab

Staged photography: a performance enacted before the camera, akin to the arrested dramas of tableaux vivants and poses plastiques. It embraces studio portraiture and other more or less elaborate, peopled scenarios directed or manipulated by the photographer.

Tableau Photography: a dressed scene involving one or more people that attempts to tell a story in a single image

Pictorial Photography: a branch of photography that deals in making pictures that appeal to the eye by using photography.. Generally feature landscapes, nature, and portraiture.