Photo History
Mozi, Aristotle, Alhazen, Da Vinci
Who were thinkers who studies optics before the invention of photography?
This triangular conceptual model organizes the three most significant camera settings which affect the exposure and visual character of a captured photo.
What is the Exposure Triangle?
This is a term denoting a lack of motion blur, resulting from using a fast shutter speed.
Stop Motion
What are warm color temperatures?
This camera mode allows us full control over our aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
What is Manual Mode?
This man was responsible for creating the first photograph on a sheet of bitumen (asphalt).
Who was Nicéphore Niépce?
Another word for "hole", this exposure triangle tool can be widened or narrowed to adjust the depth of field of the photographic plane.
What is aperture?
This is a term describing the level of focus in our visual plane whilst using a narrow aperture.
What is Deep Depth of Field?
These are hues with higher Kelvin values, such as 8000, 10000, etc.
What are cool(er) color temperatures?
This dial allows us to select the mode on our DSLR cameras.
What is the Mode Dial?
This photographic process was invented by Louis Daguerre and was one of the first commercially viable photographic processes.
What is the Daguerreotype?
This visual effect can be emphasized or limited by adjusting a camera's shutter speed.
What is motion blur?
This is the unit of measure for aperture. The higher the value, the narrower the opening.
What is f-stop?
These lenses have shorter focal lengths, capture greater depth of field, but also bring more distortion.
What are Wide-Angle Lenses?
This dial lets us adjust the shutter speed while in manual mode, as well as adjust the aperture while holding the aperture button.
What is the Command Dial?
This company was started by George Eastman, and was the first to bring mass-market availability to photography.
What is Kodak?
This visual effect is often an undesired consequence of using too much ISO.
This is a kind of motion blur which results from a photographer's unstable posture coupled with a slow shutter speed.
What is camera shake?
These lenses have wider maximum apertures, and thus can achieve greater shutter speeds without sacrificing too much exposure.
What are Fast Lenses?
This is the term for the location on the camera where we see the field of view; there are two kinds, digital and optical.
What is the Viewfinder?
This man was responsible for coining the term "photography", as well as inventing their own photographic process, known as cyanotype, or blueprints.
Who is John Herschel?
This occurs when our aperture is too wide, our shutter speed too slow, or our ISO too high.
What is overexposure?
This is an organization responsible for naming various units and metrics in technology and manufacturing, and is what the acronym "I.S.O." stands for.
What is the International Standards Organization? (or International Standardization Organization).
These lenses have no zoom functionality, and are locked at specific focal lengths, but they are often lighter and higher quality than zoom lenses.
What are Prime Lenses?
This is the term for the camera function which adjusts the color temperature of one's environment to make sure the white light comes out correctly in the photograph.
What is White Balance?