Parts of a Camera
The part of the camera that adjusts shutter speed and aperture.
The speed at which light is let into the camera.
Shutter speed
This button allows you to fully control the operation of the camera.
Manual mode
This compositional technique uses natural or man-made lines to guide the viewer's eye towards the main subject or focal point of the image.
Leading lines
The part of the camera that captures light and turns it into a photograph.
The sensor
This is the camera's sensitivity to light.
ISO
If you change from an F/3.5 to F/22, what are you changing?
Decreasing the aperture or f-stop
Separating an image into these three compositional zones helps the photographer establish depth and guide the viewer's eye through a scene.
Foreground, middle ground, and background.
The part of the camera that opens and closes to let light in.
The shutter
When this opening is adjusted, it changes the amount of light that comes into the camera.
Aperture
100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 represent this.
ISO
If the subject is in focus and the background behind the subject is blurred, does the composition have a shallow or wide depth of field?
Shallow depth of field.
The optical glass used to gather and focus light rays to form an image.
The lens
The shutter speed, the aperture and the ISO make up this.
The exposure triangle
Is a shutter speed of 1/500th considered fast or slow?
Fast
The empty or unoccupied areas surrounding the main subject or focal point of an image.
Negative space
The opening in the camera that allows the photographer to see what is being photographed.
The view finder
What do you call the amount of light that hits the camera's sensor?
Exposure
Shutter speed is measured in ___________.
Seconds
This compositional element breaks up the frame into nine equal segments and suggests placing key elements of a photo at the intersections of imaginary lines, or along the lines themselves.
Rule of thirds.