Intimidated by photography jargon and the multitude of technical and colloquial term used? Don’t be 
– vocabulary of photography is a lot less complicated than you think. Here’s a breakdown – the first of many – of key terms and how they are used. In no time, you’ll be dropping names like a seasoned shutterbug. (gaya dikit, nulisnya pake bahasa inggris xixixi)
From A to Z.
A
Ambient Light
Beberapa kali kita dengan dalam pencaayaan istilah ambient light, so what is ambient light, natural light that surrounds a subject within a setting, such as a room or a location.
Example: The ambient light in that sunlight-filled room is strong enoughm so i don’t need to turn on my camera flash. ^^
Aperture
Nah… ini apalagi Apertur hehehe…
Aperture is the size of the lens opening when you snap a photo and light is allowed to pass through and onto the camera’s sensor or film. The bigger aperture, the smaller number on the camera settings, here people often get the setting wrong. Di beberapa kamera seperti Nikon diperlihatkan di layar viewfinder nya kalau aperture di setting pada angka kecil akan ada visualisasi pada layar sehingga lebih mudah dimengerti.
And after all, using the correct aperture is the doorway to fantastic photos.
B
Backlight
As a word used, the backligh mean al ligh that usually behind the subject and facing the lens. It produces a silhouette effect. this photo may be an example:
Bokeh
Wow… apa lagi ini.. bokeh.. xixixi… sound weird, but in the photography term, bokeh is a term derrived from the japaness language which literally means “Fuzziness”. Bokeh is the result of a deliberate, slighly out of focus shot that creates a dreamy photo effect.
this pic may explain a word bokeh
C
Cropping
Kalau yang satu ini saya yakin semua sudah tahu ^__^, Cropping is using only a certain part of the image so as to exclude unwanted object in a photo
D
Depth Of Field
Tidak jauh beda dengan bokeh, hanya saja istilah DOF ini lebih kepada kedalaman fokus dari lensa. This is the range of distance within a picture that appear sharp and in focus. Depth of Field always gradually transists from sharp to unsharp. Using DOF help the viewer to focus on certain subject in a picture and is largerly determined by the aperture size – the larger the aperture [smaller F-stop number], the shorter the depth of field and thus fewer things are sharp within the picture. The example:
E
Exposure
Exposure, the total amount of light received by the film or sensor of a camera when the shutter opens. The result is brigh or dark photo. Exposure is consist of to important variable, aperture and shutter speed.
example: a long exposure creates an artistic picture of light.
F
Focal Length
The distance between the camera lens and the digital sensor or film. Essentially, it is how much your camera can see. It also shows how much the subject will be magnified. The shorter the focal length, the wider the field of view and vice versa.
Example: photographers pften refer to different lenses of differen focal length as wide angle, telephoto and so on.
Filter
A coloured piece of glass or transparent material used over the lens to emphasise, eliminate or change the colour of a scene.
I
ISO
The sensitivity of the digital camera image sensosr to the presence of light. Artinya, semakin rencah ISO yang digunakan maka akan semakin kurang sensitivitas nya terhadap cahaya, and more light is needed to produce a properly taken photo. Dan juga sebaliknya,the higher ISO akan semakin sensitive dengan cahaya sehingga sangat bagus untuk mengambil photo pada keadaan cahaya yang minim seperti pada malam hari.
However, pictures taken with higher ISO settings tend to appear mode grainy and not as colour correct as those of lower ISO setting when all other factor has been considered. Use a lower ISO when you have plently of light available so that your picture will appear more vibrant; use higher ISO when you do not have access to adequate lighting.
N
Negative Space
Negative space mean, the empty area around a photo subject.
O
Overexposure
The effect of a photo that’s almost pure while, with washed-out colours. This is the result of an aperture setting that’s too large [smaller F-stop number], a shutter speed set too slow or an ISO that’s to high.
Aperture membuka terlalu lebar tapi tidak diimbangi dengan shutter speed yang cepat sehingga mengakibatkan terlalu banyak cahaya yang masuk dan membuat picuture taken is burn out of colour.
R
Resolution
The number of pixel produced for each shot. The higher the resolution, the more details are visible of a photo subject, and also bigger file size produced.
S
Single-Lens Reflex (SLR)
A fancy way of saying that camera’s viewfinder looks through the same lens that expose the image sensor or film. What you see through the lens is what you get in a photograph. Konsepnya seperti mata manusia, apa yang kita lihat adalah object yang sebenarnya.
Shutter Speed
Diatas sudah saya sebutkan tentang shutter speed pada sub Exposure, yaitu salah satu komponen dari exposure selain aperture. This refer to how your shutter operates when a photo snapped. As a general rule, the faster you shutter opens and closes, the lower the chances of blurry image. Jika menggunakan low shutter, lebih baik menggunakan tripod sehingga picture yang dihasilkan terhindar dari blur.
Stopping Down
The act of redusing the size of the lens aperture and hence reducing the amount of light that passes through the lens. Redusing the size of the aperture alse means the F-stop number hets bigger.
V
Vignetting
An optical effect in photography causing te corners of an image to be shaded, washed out or blurry.
W
White Balance
The temperature measurement that determines the correct setting fot snapping photo. White balance is involved in producing accurate colours in yout photos.
Z
Zoom
Magnifying an image via the lens to get a close-up shot.
hiks…
