I Really Love Photography!
A technique used by photographers to ensure properly exposed images in challenging lighting situations (by overexposing and underexposing a stop or more from the meter reading).
What is Bracketing?
A picture taking device usually consisting of a light-tight box, a film holder, a shutter to admit a measured quantity of light and a lens to focus the image.
What is a camera?
The amount of pixels in a Megapixel.
What is one million?
Who integrated photography into his POP art in the 1950's?
Who is Andy Warhol?
Used to describe the maximum aperture of a lens.
Fast/Slow
When handholding a camera with a 24mm lens, this is the slowest shutter speed you can safely use to expect a sharply focused image.
What is 1/30?
A light-tight metal or plastic container that permits a roll of 35mm film to be loaded into a camera in the light.
What is a cassette?
In this technique the action is seen clear and the background appears blurred, emphasizing the action.
What is PANNING?
He took the first permanent photograph.
Who is Joseph Niepce?
The hour or so before sunset, and after sunrise, when the angle of the sun produces magical, golden light. A fantastic time to take photos outdoors.
What is the Magic/Golden Hour?
Arrangement of the elements in an image.
What is Composition?
The size of the lens opening through which light passes.
What is aperture?
This is what the word photography literally translates to (from the Greek).
What is Writing or Drawing with light?
Many of Ansel Adams photographs are of this location.
What is Yosemite National Park?
This term comes from the suggestion that photographers make chimp-like noises (“Ooh ooh ooh!”) when admiring the great shot they just took.
What is Chimping?
Three ways to control Depth of Field.
What are F/Stop, Distance to subject and Focal Length of Lens?
A mechanism that opens and closes to admit light into a camera for a measured length of time.
What is shutter?
Removes unrealistic color casts so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your image.
What is White Balance?
This New York native founded Kodak.
Who is George Eastman?
This term describes a photographer who checks out the image quality of a camera or lens by opening up an image file on the computer, zooming waaaay in, and scrutinizing the quality down to the pixel. Often considered a derogatory term, and suggests that these photographers are not taking real world standards into account.
What is Pixel Peeper/Peeping?
Literally translates to darkened room or chamber.
What is Camera Obscura?
A camera in which the image formed by the taking lens is reflected by a mirror onto a ground-glass screen for viewing. The mirror swings out of the way just before exposure:to let the image reach the film and is abbreviated SLR.
What is Single-Lense Reflex?
These illustrate different effects of depth of field and illustration of motion but achieve the same amount of exposure.
What are equivalent exposures?
In 1971 Norman Mailer said that “giving a camera to this woman was like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.” She was drawn to the so-called deviants, outsiders, marginalized people, disturbed-looking children, circus performers, etc...
Who is Diane Arbus?
Shooting a large amount of images without much care, and hoping that one will turn out.
What is Spray and Pray?