Basic Composition
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Composition
Composition
Photoshop
Exposure Triangle
Photography
100
Arranging your subject so that it lies on an intersection or line, when dividing your image into a 3x3 grid.
What is Rule of Thirds?
100
A photo that uses this would be focused on the subject and the background is blurred. You can create it with a wide aperture.
What is a shallow depth of field?
(or Depth composition rule)
100
The file format used to save layers while editing a photo.
What is .psd?
100
Speeding this up will freeze action, slowing it down will blur action.
What is shutter speed?
100
This part of the camera means "opening" and can affect the amount of light that enters the camera, as well as the depth of field.
What is aperture?
200
Leading a viewer's eye around a photo through the use of lines in a scene.
What is Leading Lines?
200
Shooting a photo from a low angle is an example of this.
What is Viewpoint?
200
This function in Photoshop allows you to manipulate an object such as scale, distort, flip, or rotate.
What is Free Transform?
200
The photographer likely 'bumped' this setting up, in order to allow for more light in a dark scene.
What is ISO?
200
Push this half-way to allow the camera to focus before taking your photo.
What is the shutter button?
300
Placing an odd number of objects together in a photo is typically more pleasing to the eye than an even number.
What is the Rule of Odds?
300
Rotating your camera 90 degrees to take a vertical photo of a vertical subject.
What is Orientation?
300
Holding this key while making a selection around an image will remove parts of that selection. This key also allows you to target an area of an image when using the Clone Stamp Tool.
What is alt?
300
This shooting mode allows the photographer to change the shutter speed, while the camera adjusts the aperture for exposure.
What is Shutter Speed Priority Mode?
300
An item used to 'bounce light' onto a subject by reflecting it to an area in shadow.
What is a reflector?
400
A photo that reduces all distracting background elements so that the focus is on the subject matter.
What is Simplification?
400
Using a natural opening within a scene to help bring the focus to a subject.
What is Natural Framing?
400
Removing parts of an image without deleting the pixels, by using white or black on a linked layer.
What is a Layer Mask?
400
Adjust this exposure setting when the aperture and shutter speed cannot change.
What is ISO?
400
Motion blurs happen when the lens is open for a longer period of time.
What is a slow shutter speed?
500
Creating a photo where the subject is a significant portion of the final image because you have shot close-up or cropped in close.
What is Fill the Frame?
500
Leaving room in the image, where the subject is looking out of the frame.
What is Leaving Space?
500
Use this to edit a photo or layers without permanently affecting the original image. There are many types, including Levels, Curves, and Gradient Map.
What is an Adjustment Layer?
500
Make this larger, to allow more light when using a fast shutter speed.
What is aperture?
(or lower the f/stop number)
500
This is the widest aperture of the following f/stops:
f/3.5
f/11
f/22
What is f/3.5?