- Composition: The placement of relative objects and elements in a photo
- Focus: A point which rays of light from an image rendered by an optical system
- Gradient: A colour of grey tone that gradually changes in density across the selected area
- Tone: The overall lightness or darkness of an area in an image similar to luminosity
- Contrast: The use of opposing elements such as colours, form or lines in proximity to produce an intensified effect
- Aperture: A diaphram that regulates the amount of light passing onto the film inside the camera
- Blurred: To make indistinct and hazy outline
- Depth of field: The distance between the nearest and farthest object
- Exposed: The quality of the light reaching the photographic film
- Over exposed: When a film is exposed for too long and too much light is in the photo
- Under exposed: When a film is exposed to light for too short of a time so then the image does not produce a normal contrast
- Panoramic: A technique using special equipment or software that captures images with elongated fields of view
- Grain: The pattern of extremely small dots of black and white or colour and the dots form the image
- Texture: Is an element of 2d and 3d that is distinguished by its perceived visual and physical properties
- Space Emphasises the point of an object
- Foreground: The area of an image that is closest to the camera
- Background: the area of and image farthest away from the camera
- Shutter: A mechanical device of a camera that controls the duration of a photographic exposure by opening and closing to allow light come through the lens and expose the plate or film
- Cropping: To be able to use a type of software which can cut the image to make un-wanted sides cut off just as if they were cut by scissors
- Resolution: The more pixels in the image the better the resolution (quality)
- Saturation: Colour saturation is used to describe the intensity of colour in the image