Photography Terms
This captures someone or something doing an activity.
What is Action shot?
Repeating shapes, colors, objects, or patterns create this photography technique.
What is Repetition?
During an interview, doing this carefully helps you develop meaningful follow-up questions.
Active listening
Using words with the same ending sounds, such as "Fun in the Sun," is this brainstorming strategy.
What is rhyme?
A good story should tell readers something they didn't already ______.
What is know?
This captures how someone responds to an event or situation.
What is Reaction?
Roads, fences, hallways, or other lines can be used to guide the viewer's eye toward the subject.
What are Leading Lines?
Asking "Can you tell me more about that?" is an example of this.
What is a follow-up question?
Looking for words that have similar meanings can help writers brainstorm headlines using these.
What are synonyms?
A writer uses these questions to shape their story and inform readers.
What are the 5 W's and 1 H.
A photograph showing a person's feelings through facial expressions or body language.
What is Emotion?
This technique places the subject along imaginary lines that divide an image into nine sections.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
These types of questions encourage detailed responses rather than "yes" or "no" answers.
What are open-ended questions?
Taking a familiar saying and giving it a creative twist is an example of using this technique.
What is a cliché/pun?
A good story clearly tells readers who or what the story is about.
What is identifying the subject?
This photograph is taken looking down on the subject from above.
What is a Bird's-Eye View?
This technique uses objects in the environment to create a border around the subject.
What is Framing?
Before interviewing someone, you should do this so you understand your subject and topic.
What is research/preparation?
The title of a story or page that is usually larger in font.
What is a Headline?
Including individual experiences and feelings adds these two qualities to a story.
What are personalization and emotion?
This uses brightness and shadows to affect the appearance and mood of a photograph.
What is Light?
Getting extremely close to your subject so that it takes up most or all of the photograph demonstrates this technique.
What is Fill the Frame/Macro?
Who, what, when, where, why, & how
What are the 5 W's and 1 H.
"Senior Stars Shine" uses this headline technique.
What is alliteration?
Along with proper grammar and spelling, a strong story should have one central idea connecting the information together.
What is a clear theme?