Event photography, defined

Camera FTP tethering sends photos from a camera to an online gallery over Wi-Fi as they are shot, using the FTP settings built into the camera or its transmitter.

A collaborative gallery lets multiple people — photographers, friends, guests — upload into one shared event gallery.

Delta sync imports only the files that are new since the last sync, rather than re-importing an entire folder every time.

An event photo gallery is a single online collection of all the photos from one event, shared with the people who were there.

EXIF metadata is the information a camera embeds in each photo file, such as capture time, camera and lens model, and exposure settings.

Face clustering automatically groups every detected face in an event into one set per person, without anyone labelling them first.

Face detection finds where faces are in an image; face recognition decides whose faces they are.

A face embedding is a list of numbers that represents the geometry of a face, so that two photos of the same person produce embeddings that are close together.

FTPS is the File Transfer Protocol with a TLS encryption layer, so the login and the files are protected in transit.

Gallery delivery is how a photographer hands finished photos to a client and their guests — the link, the access rules, and the download options.

A guest gallery is the view of an event gallery built for attendees: easy access, personal photo discovery, and downloads, without the organiser tools.

A highlight reel is a short auto-generated video that strings together a person's best moments from an event gallery.

Lifetime gallery access means an event gallery and its photos stay hosted and downloadable indefinitely, with no subscription needed to keep it alive.

A live photo wall is a screen at an event that displays photos in near real time as guests and photographers upload them.

Photo culling is the process of narrowing a large shoot down to the keepers by removing blurred, blinked, badly lit, or duplicate frames.

Photo de-duplication detects when the same image has been uploaded more than once and keeps only one copy in the gallery.

Photo pickup rate is the share of event attendees who actually retrieve their photos afterwards.

A photo scavenger hunt is a list of shots guests are challenged to capture during an event, turning attendees into an extra set of photographers.

QR code photo sharing uses a printed or on-screen QR code that opens an event gallery directly, so guests need no link, app, or account.

Selfie photo search lets someone find every photo of themselves in a large gallery by submitting a single selfie, which is matched against the faces in every image.

Semantic photo search finds photos from a plain-language description — "first dance", "speeches", "blue dress" — instead of filenames or tags.

Smart Albums are automatically generated albums, one per person, created by clustering every face in an event without manual tagging.

A tent card is a folded card that stands on a table on its own, used at events to show a table number, a menu, or a QR code.

WhatsApp photo delivery sends a guest their matched event photos through a WhatsApp chat after they message a selfie, with no app install or login.