Equipment
The glass attached to the front of the camera, that focuses the light.
What is the lens?
ISO, shutter speed, and aperture make up this.
What is the exposure triangle?
The contours or outline of something. It can be geometric or organic.
What is shape?
This composition type divides an image into 3 equal parts to help determine the placement of the subject.
What is the rule of thirds?
This was created in France the 1820's (specifically in 1826).
What is the first photograph?
This is what the acronym DSLR stands for.
What is a Digital Single Lens Reflex?
This controls the time of the exposure.
What is shutter speed?
Two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
A technique where the viewer's eye is attracted to lines that lead directly to the main subject in the image.
What is leading lines?
This effect happens when you have a really slow shutter speed, no tripod (or stabilizer), and the image looks blurry.
What is camera shake?
Pressing this button half way down, focuses your subject and measures the light.
What is the shutter release button?
A deep depth of field (sharp background) is created by this size aperture.
What is a small aperture? (F16, F22, F32)
This principle of art refers to how a viewers eyes are directed through/around an image.
What is movement?
A technique where you view the subject from above or below, as though the observer were a bird or an ant.
What is perspective?
100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400
What is ISO?
This allows you to change from M, Av, Tv, or P.
What is the mode dial?
A tool inside the camera that measures the light and tell you what your exposure will look like.
What is a light meter?
This principle deals with the distribution of visual weight.
What is balance?
This compositional technique pulls you into the image and focuses your attention on the subject by having something close to the camera.
What is framing?
The unit of measurement for the shutter speed.
What is seconds?
This is the opposite of a zoom lens.
What is a prime lens?
This represents the sensitivity of the image sensor to light.
What is ISO?
Drawing attention to a certain area or focal point.
What is emphasis?
The placement or arrangement of visual elements or 'ingredients' in a work of art.
What is composition?
This is the year that the first digital camera was invented?
What is 1975?