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  2. Headroom (photographic framing) - Wikipedia

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    Headroom refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame, but the term is sometimes used instead of lead room, nose room or 'looking room' [1] to include the sense of space on both sides of the image. The amount of headroom that is considered aesthetically pleasing is a dynamic quantity; it ...

  3. Framing (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Framing: trees focus on the church of Weissenbach an der Triesting, Austria A framing view of the Uetersen Rosarium.. In visual arts and particularly cinematography, framing is the presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the placement of the subject in relation to other objects.

  4. Picture frame - Wikipedia

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    View of a frame-maker's workshop, oil on canvas, circa 1900 The elaborate decoration on this frame may be made by adhering molded plaster pieces to the wood base.. A picture frame is a container that borders the perimeter of a picture, and is used for the protection, display, and visual appreciation of objects and imagery such as photographs, canvas paintings, drawings and prints, posters ...

  5. Crop factor - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 28 mm lens delivers a moderately wide-angle FOV on a 35 mm format full-frame camera, but on a camera with a 1.6 crop factor, an image made with the same lens will have the same field of view that a full-frame camera would make with a ~45 mm lens (28 × 1.6 = 44.8). This narrowing of the FOV is a disadvantage to photographers when ...

  6. Cropping (image) - Wikipedia

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    Cropping is the removal of unwanted outer areas from a photographic or illustrated image. The process usually consists of the removal of some of the peripheral areas of an image to remove extraneous visual data from the picture, improve its framing, change the aspect ratio, or accentuate or isolate the subject matter from its background.

  7. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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    The passe-partout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the passe-partout is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The French word may also be used for the tape used to stick the back of the picture to its frame.

  8. Matte (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    Then the frame within the full frame is enlarged to fill a screen when projected in a theater. [citation needed] Thus, in "masked widescreen" an image with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 is created by using a standard, 1.37:1 frame and matting out the top and bottom.

  9. High-speed photography - Wikipedia

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    Muybridge's photographic sequence of a race horse galloping, first published in 1878. High-speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 69 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive ...