History of Photography
This software, invented in 1990 by Adobe, is the most popular and widely-used digital imaging program.
photoshop
The three darkroom chemicals used to develop film and prints.
Developer, stop bath, and fixer.
This controls the way motion appears in a photo.
shutter speed
This shoot mode allows you to fully control all camera settings.
Manual mode
This compositional rule states that the important elements in an image should be placed along the intersections of the lines of an imaginary tic-tac-toe board.
rule of thirds
This company invented the first camera to create "instant" photos.
Found in the darkroom, this specialized projector is used to produce photographic prints from negative film.
enlarger
This is the camera's (or film's) level of sensitivity to light.
ISO
The optical glass used to gather and focus light rays to form an image.
Lens
These can be diagonal, horizontal, vertical, converging.
lines / leading lines
You can turn your living room into this earliest type of camera, which produced the very first photographic image in 1814.
camera obscura or pinhole camera
This type of light allows us to view photographic paper without ruining it.
Safelight, redlight
When this iris-like opening in the lens is adjusted, it changes the amount of light that comes into the camera.
aperture
This shoot mode allows you to take multiple images in sequence.
burst mode or continuous mode
This term refers to the empty areas around objects or subjects in an image.
negative space
What was the brand name of the 1st small camera that could be easily carried around?
Kodak
This tool holds the paper flat while it's exposed to light from an enlarger.
easel
The shutter speed, the aperture and the ISO make up this.
exposure
a technique, accessible via iphone, that puts multiple images together to create a wider-angle view.
panorama
this term refers to whether the point of focus in an images is close to, or far away from, the lens.
depth of field
This government space organization paved the way for digital photography by inventing digital imaging in the 1960s.
NASA
We use smaller pieces of paper to make these, which allow us to test various exposure times in the darkroom.
This term refers to the number of pixels per sensor and has to do with the clarity of an image.
resolution, dpi
A mounting point on the top of a camera to attach a flash unit and other compatible accessories.
Hot Shoe
this occurs when one part of a composition mirrors another part.
symmetry