a request for coverage or assignment idea coordinated with the photography department. What to read next AUTHOR INFORMATION Kenneth Irby Kenny founded Poynter's photojournalism program [..]

is either a set-up photograph (usually in a studio with no digital alteration) that is illustrative in nature and is clearly out of the realm of reality. Traditionally, it is an approach used for fash [..]

Simply is a photograph that has been captured electronically on a hard drive (storage device) or converted from film to digital format through an electronic scanning process.

A term that has long been associated with newspaper photographers. Today the term is rather controversial. Many journalist feel that the term does not acknowledge the valuable contributions of the pho [..]

photographers seek to capture the natural and candid events of history. Their quest to capture "moments" comes from the famous French documentary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and his c [..]

the reduction of the picture information to reduce the file size. it is accomplished through the sampling and averaging of the file's data. By doing so, you reduce the amount of transfer time dur [..]

sometimes called f-numbers, are nothing more than the numerical designations indicating the size of the aperture that governs the amount of light entering the lens. (f/2, f/5.6, f/16, etc.)

something unnatural in the scanning process that impairs the image quality or causes unwanted distortion.

the proportion of an image size given in terms of the horizontal length vs. the vertical height. A 5x7 image has a ratio of 7:5.

A Raster Image Processor is a production device where a digital file is converted into a raster image. An electronic beam draws a file, one line at a time, to a paint or display device, film recorder, [..]