Week 1
Camera Obscura
a small round building with a rotating angled mirror at the apex of the roof, projecting an image of the landscape on to a horizontal surface inside.
Curator
A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection.
Space
a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied.
Balance
Balance is a composition technique that arranges elements within the frame to achieve equal visual weight across the image.
Radial Symmetry
symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.
35mm film
35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard. In motion pictures that record on film, 35 mm is the most commonly used gauge.
Exhibition
a public display of works of art or items of interest, held in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair.
Texture
the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance.
Variety
Variety is the principle of art that adds interest to an artwork.
Symmetry
the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
Genre
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
Gallery
a room or building for the display or sale of works of art.
Line
An element of art defined by a point moving in space. Line may be two-or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract.
Pattern/Repetition
Pattern in Photography is a regularity within a scene. It's elements of the scene that repeat themselves in a predictable way. Pattern can be found everywhere and is commonly seen within shapes, colours or textures.
Asymmetry
lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
Twin Lens Reflex Camera
A twin-lens reflex camera is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective or "taking lens", while the other is used for the viewfinder system, which is usually viewed from above at waist level.
Museum
a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.
Color
An element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity. • Hue: name of color • Value: hue’s lightness and darkness (a color’s value changes when white or black is added) • Intensity: quality of brightness and purity (high intensity= color is strong and bright; low intensity= color is faint and dull)
Proportion/Scale
Proportion in photography is usually comparing size of objects, or the amount of one thing to the whole.
Juxtaposition
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Gelatin Silver Process
The gelatin silver process is the most commonly used chemical process in black-and-white photography, and is the fundamental chemical process for modern analog color photography. As such, films and printing papers available for analog photography rarely rely on any other chemical process to record an image.
Photography Studio
A photography studio is a workspace specifically designed and built for the purpose of taking photographs. In it's basic form a studio will feature a well lit space with a blank backdrop to allow the capturing of images in an environment free from obtrusive external light sources.
Value
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value; black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes is called middle gray.
Movement/Rhythym
Movement in photography simply refers to elements of a photo that are moving (or appear to be moving).
Abstract
consider (something) theoretically or separately from something else.