History
The original Latin term for a camera. Literally translated in to English, it means "Dark Room."
What is "Camera Obscura?"
a piece of glass or other transparent substance with curved sides for concentrating or dispersing light rays
What is a LENS?
There's a magic triangle that determines this; apeture, shuterspeed, and ISO ("film speed"). Essentially it means how much light the film or digitlal sensor is exposed to.
What is EXPOSURE?
20th Century Surrealist who mastered the use of multiple exposures before Photoshop was invented. He made the stars on the American flag into the Milky Way galaxy and turned shopping mall escalators into stairways to Heaven.
These can be "formal" (set-up, whether serious or fun) or "informal" (candid), but either way, they goal should be to capture expression, capture mood or tell something about the person being photographed.
What are Portraits?
This French chemist created the first "heliograph" (sun drawing) in 1826 by letting the sun harden bitumen (tar) onto a plate and then washing off the soft tar with lavendar oil.
Who is Niepce?
The device that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a photosensitive digital sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.
What is the SHUTTER?
It creates bright highlights and dark shadows with sharp edges, in other words, high contrast.
What is "Direct Light?"
Surrealist photographer who pioneered darkroom effects like solarization and photograms, not just multiple exposure. He was also a painnter and a fashion photographer, but he may be best known as an underwater super villian.
Who is Man Ray?
In Drawing, this may mean cutting parts of a scene or subject so that your commposition "relates to the format." In Photography, you can do this first with your viewfinder; just deciding what you do and don't want in your shot, but you can also do it in the darkroom (or with editing software) after taking the picture and finally, you can actually physically cut the print.
What is Cropping?
These images created by Louis Daguerre begining in the 1830s on polished silver with iodine and mucury vapors.
What are Daguerreotypes?
This is the hole which determines how much light comes through the lens when the shutter is open. It's size is noted in "F-stops." F/16 is a narrow opening, whereas F/2 is a very wide opening.
What is the Apeture?
It "bathes" subjects in light from all sides so that shadows are weak or even absent. Colors are less vibrant and are likely to be pastel or in muted tones. Becasue it's dimmer, you may not be able to us a small apeture or a fast shutter speed.
What is Diffused Light?
She shot celebreties for both Rolling Stone and Vogue magazines. She's known for setting up elaborite sets and dramatic lighting.
Who is Annie Liebowitz?
This anagram refers to choosing a less-distracting background, often achieved just by lowering the vantage point of your camera; It's also the name of a 1970's heavy metal band.
What is KISS? (Keep it Simple, Stupid)
He pioneered the use of celluloid rolls of "film" and a simple "brownie" box camera that consumers could return to his company, Kodak who would develop prints for them. He said he wanted using a camera to be as easy as using a pencil.
Who is George Eastman?
A CCD or CMOS chip that converts the image into electronic bianary code. Instead of a mechanical shutter, many digital cameras simply turn this on and off for a desired amount of time.
What is an Image Sensor?
Partly direct and partly diffused. Shadows are present, but they are softer and not as dark as those cast in direct light. Hazy days, partial shade or indirect light with fill-light are all ways that this can be accieved.
What is Directional/Diffused light?
This famous College Photography professor is know for saying "you don't take a photograph, you MAKE them." He's also known for his striking landscapes of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park.
Who is Ansel Adams?
This is a great way to de-emphasise a background. By choosing a wide apeture, a short focal length and having your camera relatively close to your main subject, you can make the foreground or background appear blurry.
What is Depth of Field?
In 1937 Harvard engineer Edwin Land invented this electromagnetic process which filters light waves used in sunglasses, WWII aircraft & espionage and the worlds first "instant" cameras.
What is "Polaroid?"
The length of these can determine the focal length, angle of view, and magnification. A short one will give you a wide angle, but little magnificaiton. A longer one will provide a narrow angle of view, but make things which are far away seem very close.
What are "Zoom Lenses?"
"The farther that light travels, the more the light rays spread out and the dimmer the resulting illumination."
What is the Inverse Square Law?
This American woman is probably best known for her documentary photography of homeless Oklahoma families traveling to California during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This is how common shapes, say of a bell pepper, can become suggestive, sensual, even erotic?
What is "Photographing for Meaning?"
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What is METAPHOR?