Photography

Parts of the Camera

100

This setting, measured in f-stops, helps control how much light enters the camera.

What is the aperture?

200

This device can open for a short or long time letting light into the camera.

What is the shutter?

300

When needed, this device will emit a quick burst of light when taking a picture.

What is a flash?

400

Located on the very front of the camera, it's what you point at your subject.

What is the lens?

500

This portable device stores photographs created by a digital camera.

What is a memory card?

Digital Photo History

100

In 2004, this famous photo company quit making film cameras due to the popularity of digital photography.

What is Kodak?

200

This software, invented in 1990 by Adobe, is the most popular and widely-used digital imaging program.

What is Photoshop?

300

This small, easy-to-use-camera that originally sold for $1, made photography popular among average citizens beginning in 1900.

What is the Kodak Brownie?

400

This precursor to photography, used a dark room with a hole in the wall to project an upside down image on the opposite wall.

What is a Camera Obscura?

500

This government space agency paved the way for digital photography by inventing digital imaging in the 1960's.

What is NASA?

Terminology

100

The term means, "the camera does it for you."

What is automatic?

200

These three colors, known as RGB, make up all electronic images.

What are Red, Green, and Blue?

300

It's the smallest, most basic part of a digital image.

What is a pixel?

400

The combination of the three settings of ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed are known as this geometric shape

What is the Exposure Triangle?

500

This setting changes the light sensitivity of the image sensor. Too much, and your image will look noisy.

What is ISO?

Know Your Gear

100

Cheaper and smaller, these types of digital cameras are built for average users.

What are Point and Shoot cameras?

200

This term means 'million' and is often used when describing how many pixels a digital camera produces.

What is Mega?

300

This type of camera has interchangeable lenses, and full manual settings.

What is a DSLR?

400

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

What is JPEG, jpeg, .jpeg, .jpg?

500

This type of lens or setting allows extreme close-up photography.

What is Macro?

Photo Potpourri

100

This three-legged device helps steady a camera during long exposures.

What is a Tripod?

200

Digital photographs are made up of millions of these.

What are Pixels?

300

This company's early slogan was, "You take the picture, we do the rest."

What is Kodak?

400

I need you when I'm dead. I have to charge you when you you're dead.

What is a battery?

500

I store and export your pictures, I can edit and change a picture's lighting and color as well using AI technology.

What is Lightroom?