Parts of a Camera
The part of the camera that opens and closes to let light in.
What is the shutter?
The speed at which light is let into the camera.
What is the shutter speed?
These lead the eye to a certain point and can be diagonal, horizontal, vertical, converging.
What are leading lines?
This button allows you to fully control the operation of the camera.
What is manual mode?
This tool allows you to clip an image taking out things you do not want in the final image.
What is the crop tool?
The optical glass used to gather and focus light rays to form an image.
What is the lens?
This is the camera's sensitivity to light.
What is ISO?
Placing your subject in the right or left third of your frame leaving the rest more open.
What is the rule of thirds?
Shutter speed is measured in ___________.
What are seconds?
The part of the face that should be the sharpest.
What are the eyes?
The opening in the camera that allows the photographer to see what is being photographed.
What is the view finder?
When this opening is adjusted, it changes the amount of light that comes into the camera.
What is aperture?
Positioning your object so that is is framed by something else within the scene.
What is frame within a frame?
100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 represent this.
What is ISO?
An ISO that is too high can cause this negative effect in your photo.
What is noise?
A fixed focal length lens that does not allow you to zoom in and out.
What is a prime lens?
The shutter speed, the aperture and the ISO make up this.
What is the exposure triangle?
If the subject is in focus and the background behind the subject is blurred, does the compostition have a low or high depth of field?
What is a low depth of field?
If you change from an F/3.5 to F/22, what are you changing?
What is decreasing the aperture?
Too much lighting hitting the sensor will cause your photo to be this.
What is overexposed.
This tool will help hold your camera very still.
What is a tripod?
The measure of the amount of light that hits the camera.
What is exposure?
This balances the color temperature of your image.
What is white balance?
Is a shutter speed of 1/500th considered fast or slow?
What is fast?
A technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.
What is forced perspective?