Photo Facts
"M" focus and "A" focus.
What is Manual focus and what is Automatic focus?
Glass and/or mirror assemblage in a camera that allows you to take a picture.
What is a camera lens?
The speed at which the shutter of the camera closes.
What is shutter speed?
A type of photography genre where animals, plants, and organic scenery are the subjects focused on and captured?
What is nature photography?
Type of photography genre where furry friends are at the center of attention.
What is pet/animal photography?
The best/ideal ISO setting when taking pictures.
What is 100/200 ISO?
In a digital camera, this is what is needed and put into the camera to keep and save all the images you capture.
What is a memory card?
Controls the amount of light entering the camera. Measured in f-stops.
What is aperture?
A type of photography genre where people (often individuals) are the main focus.
What is portrait photography?
Best time to take photos.
What is Golden Hour?
The famous nature photographer, who is best known for his black and white photographs.
Who is Ansel Adams?
The part of the camera you look through to see the subject and setting you are about to capture.
What is a Viewfinder?
Your camera's sensitivity to light as it pertains to either film or a digital sensor. (In very basic terms, a camera setting that will brighten or darken a photo.)
What is ISO?
The photography genre where you need to be careful and have 'lightning' speed.
What is storm photography?
What a photo is when there is too much light part of it.
What is overexposure?
The screen you can look at photos you took, as well as see what you are capturing.
What is a LCD screen?
What is a camera body?
Simplest terms: How blurry the background and subject are in your photo is. Technically, refers to the distance between the closest and farthest objects that appears acceptably sharp.
What is Depth of Field?
A type of photography that takes place in the air.
What is aerial photography?
Tool used to help assist in taking portrait photos (helps with lighting).
What is a soft box?
What is mid-day?
The button you press to take your picture.
What is a shutter release button?
This is a setting used for capturing light-based images (especially fast-moving light sources).
What is bulb mode?
A type of photography that makes small objects appear larger.
What is macro photography?
Unequal visual weight on either side of a photo. But those visual elements balance out each other.
What is asymmetrical balance?