Photography Basics
Composition
Photography Basics II
Photography Vocab
Know Your Gear
100

100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 are numbers for this setting.

What is ISO?

100

What rule does this grid represent?

What is the Rule of Thirds?

100

This software program, invented in 1989, is the industry standard digital editing program.

What is Photoshop?

100

Known as RGB, it's the three colors that make up all electronic images.

What are red, green, and blue?

100

These two camera brands are the most widely used among photo professionals.

What are Canon and Nikon?

200

Shutter speed is measured in these units.

What are seconds?

200

The point of view that is used in this shot.



What is Bird's Eye View? or 90 degree?

200

It's the most common compressed file format used in digital photography.

What is JPEG?

200

The shorter abbreviation for a "picture element," or the tiny squares that make up your digital photo.

What is a Pixel?

200

The optical glass used to gather and focus light rays to form an image.  

What is Lens?

300

An aperture setting is described by this term.

What is F-Stop?

300

A series of lines leading the viewers eye across the whole image.

What is leading lines?

300

This company  produced the first camera that could take "instant" photos.

What is Polaroid?

300

Its size of this opening in your lens controls the intensity of light entering the camera

What is Aperture?

300

Cheaper and light-weight, these types of digital cameras are built for average consumers.

What are point and shoot cameras?

400

Proper exposure is a result of the correct combination of these three settings.

What are shutter speed, aperture, and ISO?

400

True or False?

A small aperture opening creates shallow depth of field

What is False?

400

The small window in the camera that allows the photographer to see what is being photographed.

What is the Viewfinder?

400

A measure of the number of pixels there are in a square inch.

What is Resolution?

400

A small insert that stores all the photos you have taken.

What is an SD card?

500

The term for how elements in your photo are arranged.

What is composition?

500

Using a tree branch to put emphasis on the subject.


What is natural framing?

500

The full meaning of DSLR.

What is digital single-lens reflex camera?

500

The overall measure of the amount of light that hits the camera sensor.

What is Exposure?

500

The most useful and professional way of stabilizing your camera when you are using a slow shutter speed.

What is a Tripod?