Editing and Post-Processing
This Adobe Lightroom tool is commonly used to adjust brightness and color.
What is Lightroom?
A 50mm lens is often called this type of lens.
What is a standard lens?
This setting controls brightness—aka the thing you panic-adjust when your photo looks like a cave.
What is exposure?
The “rule of thirds” exists so your subject isn’t awkwardly stuck in the middle like a school presentation.
What is composition?
This photographer made black-and-white landscapes cooler than your playlist
Who is Ansel Adams
Increasing this makes the difference between darks and lights stronger.
What is contrast?
Lenses under 35mm are typically considered this.
What are wide-angle lenses?
If your photo looks like it was taken during a power outage, your ISO is probably too…
What is low?
A photo of your friend posing way too seriously is called this.
What is a portrait?
This photographer takes celebrity portraits better than your school picture day
Who is Annie Leibovitz?
This adjustment changes the overall color tone (warm vs cool).
What is white balance?
This type of lens makes faraway subjects appear closer
What is a telephoto lens?
This camera part moves super fast—unlike you getting out of bed Monday morning.
What is the shutter?
When your photo is brighter than your phone screen at 3AM, it’s this.
What is overexposed?
This famous photo has one of the most intense stares ever.
What is Afghan Girl?
Removing small imperfections or objects is called this.
What is retouching / healing?
A lens with a fixed focal length is called this.
What is a prime lens?
You’d use a fast shutter speed to freeze this—like your friend tripping in PE.
What is motion?
When everything is blurry except your disappointment, your image is not this.
What is sharp / in focus?
This field involves capturing real events, not staged TikToks.
What is photojournalism?
This Adobe Photoshop feature allows combining multiple images into one.
What is compositing?
This happens to faces when using very wide lenses up close—aka “why do I look like that?”
What is distortion?
This setting gives you that “blurry background influencer look
What is aperture?
This term describes how light and dark tones balance—basically your photo’s mood lighting.
What is exposure?
Winning this award means your photos are seriously impressive
What is the Pulitzer Prize?