Lenses. As in “Ooh, that’s some fancy new glass you got there!”, referring to a lens.

Looking at the LCD

Shooting a large amount of images without much care, and hoping that one will turn out.

A term used by wedding photographers to describe a relative with a camera who tends to get in the way of the hired photographer.

A Japanese term used to describe the quality of the out-of-focus areas in an image. If it’s particularly pleasing, you’ll hear “Sweet bokeh!” Pronunciation varies, usually either “boh-kay” or “boh-ke”.

A fixed focal length lens. The other option is a zoom lens, which can move between a range a focal lengths.

 A 50mm fixed focal length lens. Considered a fantastically useful focal length.

When bright areas in an image are so overexposed that they lose all detail, and become pure white.

A snapshot-type photo, where the subjects grip on to each other, look at the camera, and grin.