Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary 4
Vocabulary 5
100
A disc of transparent glass or plastic with one or more curved surfaces
What is lens
100
Image file that comes directly off the digital-imaging sensor with no in camera processing or compression added to it
What is RAW
100
The amount of information that can be contained in a pixel
What is bit depth
100
A thin sheet of material forming a partition
What is diaphragm
100
The name of a color, such as green, blue, or yellow, that is determined by its position in the light spectrum
What is hue
200
The measure of the brilliance or purity of color
What is saturation
200
A style of photography popular from the 1850's to the 1940's and characterized by images that were made to resemble paintings, drawings, or etchings
What is pictorialist
200
A cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound
What is reel
200
The sharpness and fine detail in an image
What is resolution
200
An image file format that is available for nearly every graphics program
What is TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
300
The guidelines including: unity, variety, balance, contrast, emphasis, pattern, proportion, and movement and rhythm, that are used to arrange the elements of art in a composition
What is principles of design
300
The hole or opening inside a lens that determines the amount of light passing through the lens
What is aperture
300
A universal image file format, with the file extension .jpg, that compresses an image by getting rid of 'useless' data so the image takes up less room on a memory card or hard drive
What is JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
300
The building blocks of art: line, shape and form, space, color, value, and texture
What is elements of art
300
A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristical
What is element
400
A numerical representation of the diameter of a lens's aperture.
What is f-stops
400
Using software programs to add pixels to an image in order to increase its resolution and size
What is interpolation
400
Created by increasing a digital camera's ISO setting, it is characterized by red, blue, green peeks in an image that cause decreased detail, lower resolution and less saturated colors
What is image noise
400
Refers to how much of the scene is in focus, both in front of and behind the subject or the point of focus
What is depth of field
400
The number that represents a film's speed; it is standardized way to make sure the film's sensitivity to light
What is ISO (International Standards Organization)
500
This device provides a magnified view of the image projected by the enlarger, so you can focus on the silver grains that make up the image
What is grain focuser
500
A system of composition or balanced that is based on the ancient Greek ideal of Golden Mean
What is rule of thirds
500
An effect that occurs when the colors in an image are broke up into distinct, solid areas of color, instead of continuous shades of colors
What is posterized
500
A camera with a hinged mirror that reflects the projected image from the lens into a prism or ground glass
What is SLR (Single Lens Reflex)
500
Using either a handheld meter or a built-in camera meter to determine the exposure for a given situation
What is exposure metering