Basic Camera Operations
Part of the camera you look through to frame your photo.
What is the viewfinder?
The rule suggesting you divide your image into a grid and place key elements along the grid lines.
What is the rule of thirds?
The best natural light for photography often occurs at this time, shortly after sunrise or before sunset.
What is golden hour?
This tool in photo editing software removes blemishes and imperfections.
What is the healing brush or clone tool?
This type of camera is typically on a smartphone.
What is a digital camera or phone camera?
The button you press to take a picture.
What is the shutter button?
This element in a photo can lead the viewer's eye through the image.
What are leading lines?
Too much light in a photo is called this.
What is overexposure?
This term describes enhancing or modifying a photo after it was initially taken.
What is photo editing or post-processing?
This type of camera has interchangeable lenses and is popular among professionals.
What is a DSLR?
This setting controls how much light enters the camera through the lens.
What is the aperture?
Term for the space around and between the subject of an image.
What is negative space?
This setting adjusts the camera for different types of light, like sunlight or florescent.
What is white balance?
This effect enhances the edges and details in an image to make it appear clearer.
What is sharpening?
A smaller, lighter alternative to a DSLR, this camera also features interchangeable lenses.
What is a mirrorless camera?
This setting adjusts the camera's sensitivity to light.
What is ISO?
When one item or figure stands out against a pattern or repetition, it creates this photographic element.
What is contrast or emphasis?
This type of lighting, where the light source is behind the subject, can create a silhouette effect.
What is backlighting?
Correcting a tilted or off-center photograph involves using this function.
What is cropping and rotating?
These cameras are known for their ease of use and automatic settings, often used for quick snapshots.
What is a point-and-shoot camera?
This term describes the length of time the camera's shutter is open when taking a photo.
What is shutter speed?
A technique where the subject is framed by something else in the image.
What is framing?
This feature in cameras helps to evaluate the exposure of the image.
What is the exposure histogram?
This is the process of adjusting the range of bright and dark tones in a photo.
What is tone mapping?
This type of camera captures images on physical media through a chemical process.
What is a film camera?