Exposure Triangle
Photojournalism
Composition
Christmas Movies
Christmas Trivia
100

This setting controls how long the camera's sensor is exposed to light.

What is Shutter Speed?
100

Uses images to tell a news story.

What is photojournalism?
100

This is the visual element used to lead the viewer's eye through the photo toward the subject, often used in landscape photography.

What is Leading Lines?

100

In this Christmas movie, a young boy named Kevin is accidentally left behind when his family goes on vacation.

What is Home Alone?

100

The name of the original Santa Claus.

What is St. Nicholas?

200

This is the setting that controls how much light is let into the camera through the lens.

What is Aperture?

200

Best photos for photojournalism contain this:

What is faces, action, and/or emotion?

200

This composition technique uses elements (such as doorways or windows) to highlight the subject.

What is Framing?

200

This actor played the role of Elf in the Christmas movie of the same name.

Who is Will Ferrell?

200

According to the Bible, this ruler ordered a census that led Mary and Joseph to travel to Bethlehem.

Who is Caesar Augustus?

300

This setting controls the camera's sensitivity to light.

What is ISO?

300

Words that go with a photo.

What is a caption?

300

This rule states that you should imagine your image divided into nine equal parts using two horizontal and two vertical lines, and place important elements along these lines or at their intersections.

What is the Rule of Thirds?

300

This classic Christmas movie features a character named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by three ghosts.

What is A Christmas Carol?

300

These were the gifts brought by the Wise Men to the baby Jesus.

What are Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?

400

To freeze action in a photo you do this.

What is speed up the shutter speed?

400

The 5 W's and H should be included with a well-written story.  What do they mean?

What is who, what, when, where, why, and how?

400

A technique that uses camera angles, perspective, and size to create the illusion that objects or people are larger, smaller, closer, or farther away than they actually are.

What is Forced Perspective?

400

This animated Christmas movie features a train that takes children to the North Pole.

What is the Polar Express?

400

This angel appeared to Mary to announce that she would conceive a child by the Holy Spirit.

Who is Gabriel?

500

When you open the aperture wider (i.e., lower f-number), this effect happens to your depth of field.

What is a shallow depth of field or a blurry background?

500

The first sentence in a caption should be written this way.

What is in present tense?

500

This is the effect that occurs when an object in the foreground is sharply focused while the background is blurred, often used to emphasize a subject.

What is Bokeh?

500

What’s the name of the family featured in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?

What is the Griswolds?

500

One of Santa’s reindeer shares a name with a famous symbol of Valentine’s Day. Which reindeer is that?

What is Cupid?