Camera Modes
In this mode, the camera will set everything for you.
What is "automatic."
Aperture settings are measured in these units.
What are f-stops?
The part of the human eye that's like a camera shutter.
What is the eyelid?
The ISO number in the camera refers to this.
What is how sensitive to light the camera will be.
How you define symmetrical balance in a photo.
What is a picture that is the same on the left and right, or top and bottom?
This setting allows you to take a very close picture of the subject.
What is "Macro".
An aperture # that allows a lot of light to pass through the lens.
What is a low aperture number, like f1.4 or f2.0?
A shutter speed that is best for capturing frozen action.
What is a quick shutter, such as 1/125 or higher?
A camera should be set to this ISO number in very bright sunshine.
What is an ISO number from 200-400?
When the subject appears to be connected to, or fused with something else in the picture when it really wasn't.
What is a "merger"?
The camera will set everything EXCEPT the shutter speed.
What is "Shutter Priority."
What effect, other than light control, does a large aperture hole have on a picture?
What is getting a shallow depth of field in a photo?
This speed shutter will cause motion blur with a moving subject.
What is slow?
A camera should be set to this ISO number when shooting in the dark or at night.
What is a high ISO number, such as 800+?
A great photography composition rule for placing the subject for best effect.
What is "Rule of Thirds"?
The mode to use if you want to get shallow depth of field.
What is "Aperture Priority" or "Portrait."
What effect, other than light, does a small aperture hole have on how the picture looks?
What is large depth of field?
This is probably needed for a camera if the shutter is too slow.
What is a tripod or stationary surface?
When the light source is behind the subject causing it to look too dark.
What is backlighting?
Phenomena where uncontrolled light gets through the lens and affects the photo negatively.
What is "flare"?
A mode that takes a wide angle picture where everything is in focus - even things in the distance.
What is landscape mode?
The aperture in a camera lens looks like this or can be described as...
What are like black fan blades?
How the speed of the shutter is measured.
What is fractions of a second?
Fireworks mode works best in this type of light.
What is a dark situation, or at night?
The kind of line that the eye follows towards something in the picture.
What is a leading line?