Photography
Techniques
Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Misc.
100

Refers to using elements of a scene to create a frame within your frame. For example, you might shoot through a doorway, pulled back curtains, branches, fences, tunnels, or arches to highlight your subject.

What is the framing technique?

100

Shading with closely drawn parallel lines.

What is Hatching?

100

Deals with the lightness or darkness of a color.

What is Value?

100

The part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas.

What is Emphasis?

100

The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

What is Copyright? 

200

The perfect time of day for outdoor photos.

What is the Golden Hour?

200

An extension of hatching, which uses fine parallel lines drawn closely together to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing.

What is Cross Hatching?

200

A mark with greater length than width. _____ can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

What is Line?

200

The repeating of an object or symbol all over the work of art

What is Pattern?

200

A creative way to express and record life's experiences, feelings, emotional reactions, or our inner world – visually and verbally.

What is a Visual Journal?

300

Lighting, angles and composition.

What are key elements in photography?

300

The creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots.

What is Stippling?

300

Can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes

What is Shape?

300

Works with pattern to make the work of art seem active

What is Repetition?

300

An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

What is a Parody? 

400

A technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.

What is Forced Perspective Photography?

400

A bit less controlled and more random, and involves using your pen or pencil to make lots of random, squiggly marks to build up areas of shadow.

What is Scumbling? 

400

The surface quality that can be seen and felt

What is Texture?

400

The feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art, which creates a sense of completeness

What is Unity?

400

Commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated into the work.

What is Pop Art?

500

The area in the composition to which the viewer's eye is naturally drawn.

What is a Focal Point?
500

The process of adding value to create the illusion of form, space, and most importantly - light in a drawing.

What is Shading?

500

Produced when light waves strike an object and are reflected into our eyes.

What is Color?

500

The use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art.

What is Variety?

500

A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

What is a Collage?