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Refers to the lens opening that allows us to control the amount of light that reaches the film or digital sensor.
What is aperture?
Mode that allows you to get closer to your subject.
What is macro mode?
The amount of time that the shutter remains open or the amount of time that the digital sensor "sees" the image.
What is shutter speed?
Involves blocking some elements withing the photograph in order to show off other elements.
What is framing?
Lights, like the flash on your camera, that only emit light when you tell them to.
What are flash lights?
Semiautomatic mode where the photographer selects the particular aperture for the photograph.
What is aperture priority mode?
One in which the photographer makes all of the decisions about the aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and so on.
What is manual mode?
In this mode, your camera will automatically choose a faster shutter speed to capture moving objects and keep them in focus.
What is sports mode?
Involves imagining that your photograph is split into thirds both horizontally and vertically and placing important aspeces at the intersections of these lines.
What is the rule of thirds?
Occurs when the sun is at the back of the photographer.
What is frontlighting?
The mode in which the camera selects the aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and so on.
What is automatic mode?
Makes taking pictures in low light situations a bit easier. This mode uses a longer shutter speed to capture the image as well as a flash to light up items closer to the camera.
What is night mode?
Aperture measurement; typically expressed as f/number, such as f/2.8.
What are F-stops?
Occurs when the light source is behind the subject.
What is backlighting?
Any object that reflects light back toward the subject of your photograph.
What is a reflector?
The amount of your picture that will be in focus.
What is depth of field?
Mode that automatically uses a larger aperture.
What is portrait mode?
Involves giving the main object room to move in the photograph before the object would move out of the photograph.
Lights that remain on. They can include lams, fluorescent lights, and other lights that remain constantly on.
What are continuous or constant source lights?
Happens when the light source is at an angle to the subject.
What is sidelighting?
What is landscape mode?
Often represented by an "S" or "TV" on the camera settings. This mode allows the photographer to set the shutter speed, while the camera will adjust other aspects (like aperture, white balance, and so on) in relation to the shutter speed setting.
What is shutter priority mode?
Involves blocking some elements withing the photograph in order to show off other element.
What is composition?
Photography that uses only light already present in the scene.
What is existing light photography?
Lighting devie that encloses the lighting source in a "box" with reflective back and side walls and a front diffusing material, where the light passes through.