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| Coverage | The story of the year told through complete, balanced, relevant and dynamic verbal and visual content. |
| Traditional Sections | An approach to organizing yearbook content in five common sections: student life, academics, sports, clubs and people. |
| Chronological Presentation | A coverage approach that involves using a time element such as seasons or months to organize content. Within the time-based sections such as summer, fall, winter and spring traditional content areas such as student life, academics, sports and clubs are still covered. |
| Blended Coverage | An approach in which spreads are built around topics with coverage coming from all traditional content areas: student life, academics, sports and clubs. |
| Beat | A method of gathering story and photo ideas by regularly checking with a person, office, club, academic department, committee or team. A journalist visits these sources on a regular basis, generally once a week. |
| Topic | The general content covered in photos and words. A topic is often too general to guide photographers and reporters. Specific angles facilitate meaningful storytelling. |
| Angle | A narrowly defined aspect or perspective of a broad topic, resulting in more meaningful and specific photos and words. |
| Event | A planned activity that might be photographed and reported in the yearbook. Interesting stories result when event coverage focuses on the people organizing and experiencing the event. |
| Lens | An optical piece of glass designed to focus rays of light to produce an image on film, photographic paper, sensor or screen. Adjustable lenses feature focusing and f/stop controls. |
| Telephoto Lens | A lens that has a greater focal length and narrower angle of view than a normal or wide-angle lens. Telephoto and zoom lenses are used to capture action close up at sporting events. |
| Wide-Angle Lens | A lens that has a shorter focal length and wider angle of view than a normal or telephoto lens. Usually in the 15mm to 24mm focal length range. A wide-angle lens will produce a smaller subject image than a normal or telephoto lens when all lenses are the same distance from the subject. |
| Depth of Field | The area in front of and behind the subject that is in acceptable focus. Depth of field is controlled by the lens aperture, lens focal length and distance of the camera from the subject. |
| Background | The area behind the main subject or center of interest that remains in focus. To keep a cluttered background from coming distracting, a photographer can use a wide lens opening to reduce depth of field or change the camera angle. |
| Foreground | The area in front of the main subject or center of interest that remains in acceptable focus. |
| Focal Length | The distance from the optical center of a lens to the point behind the lens where the light rays from an object at the infinity position are brought into focus. |
| Bird's-Eye View | Camera angle used from above. |
| Worm's-Eye View | A camera angle used from below the main subject. |
| Cut Out Background (COB) | A photo treatment in which the background has been cut away from the subject. |
| Dominant | The largest photo in a collection of images that acts as a focal point. The picture's storytelling content and technical quality should justify its star treatment. The principal of dominance in design maintains that an image two to three times larger than any other creates a strong visual impact. |
| Highlights | The brightest part of an image containing details. |
| Shadows | The dark (or black) areas of a photograph |
| Cropping | To use part of an image for the purpose of improving composition. The photographer can crop through the viewfinder while shooting the photograph or during the editing process. |
| Focus | to adjust a lens so that the light rays transmitted by it are sharply defined. The point in an image on which a viewer's attention is fixed. |
| Reaction Shot | A photograph that captures the subject's reaction to an action. For example, football players celebrating on the sidelines following a critical touchdown. |
| Resolution | In digital photography, the number of pixels that a camera or scanner can capture. In image editing, the number of pixels per inch. |
| Shutter Speed | Indicates the length of time that light reaches the film or sensor. |
| Exposure | The amount of light reacting the film or sensor. The camera's shutter speed and f/stop settings control the exposure. |
| Fluorescent | Light produced by a tube coated on the inside with a material that glows. |
| Filter | A device that fits over the lens, changing the light in some way. |
| Diopter | An optical term used to indicate the strength or magnifying power of a close-up lens. |
| Raw | A digital image file format that does not compress or alter image data captured by the camera's image sensor. |
| Memory Card | A small, reusable device that is inserted into a digital camera to electronically record and temporarily store photographic digital images. |
| JPEG | (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A data-compression technique that reduces file size with loss of information to allow more images to be saved on a memory card. |
| Card Reader | A device that reads photostorage cards and transfers data to a computer. |
