ABBREVIATIONS

[Diane Miller]

Here is a list edited from one posted several years ago. Feel free to suggest others that should be added!

I’ve edited out the instant message abbreviations, which are easily found with a web search, and left the photography jargon. And then there are all those bird name abbreviations…

ACR - Adobe Camera Raw
AWB - Auto White Balance
AF/MF - Autofocus/Manual focus
Av - Aperture Value (Camera mode for aperture priority)
BG – Background
BBF – back button focus
BIF - Birds in Flight
BIH - Birds in Habitat
BOAS - Bird on a Stick
CA - Chromatic Aberration (purple or green fringe around objects)
CC - Creative Cloud (referring to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop subscription model)
C&C - Comments & Critiques
CEP - Color Efex Pro (NIK software)
CMYK - Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black color space
CS – Adobe Creative Suite
CW - Clockwise rotation
CCW - Counter Clockwise rotation
DOF - Depth of Field
DPP – Digital Photo Pro, Canon’s raw converter
ETTR -- expose to the right (without blowing out highlights) to record more detail in darks. Highlights and midtones can be darkened to correct values in processing.
EXP - Exposure
EV - Exposure value
EC - Exposure Compensation
FG - Foreground
FF - Fill Flash or Full Frame
FEC - Flash Exposure Compensation
GND - Graduated Neutral Density (filter)
HA - Head Angle
HDR - High Dynamic Range
HH - Hand Held
HOM - Hand of Man IQ- Image Quality
HSL - Hue/Saturation/Luminosity
ICC profile - describes color behavior of a device
IQ - image quality
IS - Image Stabilization (Canon lens term)
IR - Infrared
LL- Lower Left
LR - Lower Right or Lightroom (software)
LLC - Lower Left Corner
NR - Noise reduction
OOF - Out of Focus
OP – original post
OS - Optical stabilization
PS - Photoshop
PM - Private Message
PP - Post Processed
QM - Quick Mask (PS Tool)
RGB - Red/Green/Blue
ROT - Rule of thirds (compositional guideline)
RP - repost
S/H - Shadow/Highlight PS Tool
H/S – Hue and Saturation
SEP - Silver Efex Pro (NIK software)
SS - Shutter Speed
TC - Tele converter
Tv - Time Value (Camera mode for shutter speed priority)
USM - Unsharp Mask (PS Tool for sharpening) or ultrasonic motor
UL - Upper Left
UR - Upper Right
URC - Upper Right Corner
VR - Vibration Reduction (Nikon lens term)
WB - White Balance