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In digital photography, clipping means that a pixel has no light/color information – it’s either pure white or pure black. In the case of black clipping, it means that a pixel is pure black. The picture to the left shows an image in  on. All of the blue areas (mostly…

03 September 2010 0 comments Glossary

The basic idea of tethering is that you hook your camera up to a computer and the computer becomes involved in the image capturing process. There are two ways that the computer might be involved: storing the images and controlling the capture. The simplest use of tethering is to immediately…

02 September 2010 0 comments Glossary

A stop (might also be called an f-stop or an exposure stop) is a basic but important term in photography. You might hear someone say that a picture is “Underexposed by 1 stop” or “The picture is overexposed, turn the exposure down one stop.” The term “stop” is a relative…

On most cameras, you’ve got a handful of automatic of semi-automatic modes. One of those is usually Shutter Priority Mode. It’s usually identified with the Tv label on the settings dial. It might also be labeled simply with a “T” or an “S”. In shutter priority mode, you select a…

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