Camera Basics
A photographer should use this to help prevent dropping the camera while taking pictures.
What is a camera strap?
The photographer sets the shutter speed and the camera picks the aperture. Best used for controlling how motion is conveyed.
What is Shutter Speed Priority?
Determines how much of the image is in focus from the background.
What is Depth of Field?
The main person in a photograph.
What is a subject?
When a photographer takes a picture from ground level looking upward at a subject.
What is Worms-Eye View?
This software is commonly used to edit and organize photograph files.
What is Adobe Lightroom?
Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO work together to create this.
What is the Exposure Triangle?
Changing this camera setting can affect how sensitive the sensor is to light and is one part of the exposure triangle.
What is ISO?
The questions guide writing the photo's caption.
What is Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
This process removes unrealistic color casts by using the correct profile for the light in a scene.
What is White Balance?
The focus mode where the photographer rotates the lens barrel to focus the lens.
This metering mode looks at a small area of the scene and is useful when you want exposure based on a specific area.
What is Spot metering?
This file format is smaller and can be used immediately, but some image data is lost or compressed.
What is JPEG?
A photograph's caption should generally be written in this tense.
What is present tense?
Controls the amount of time that the sensor is exposed to light and how much motion is shown in the image
This is the overall amount of light that reaches your camera's sensor.
This metering mode gives priority to the central part of the scene while largely ignoring the edges.
What is Center-Weighted metering?
This file format contains all the image data captured by the camera sensor and usually requires post-processing.
What is RAW?
What is framing?
The size of the opening of the lens. Controls how much light enters the lens at once and is measured in F-stops.
What is Aperture?
This camera mode allows the photographer to control both shutter speed and aperture without the camera making those decisions.
What is Manual mode?
This metering mode examines the entire scene to determine the exposure.
This autofocus mode focuses once on a subject and is commonly used for stationary subjects.
What is Single Shot Autofocus?
The arrangement of lighting, background, and subjects within a photograph is called this.
What is Composition?
Lines in a photograph that lead the viewer's eye toward a subject are called these.
What are leading lines?