THE CAMERA
A device that lets you transfer pictures from the camera’s SD card to the computer.
What is a card reader?
Small drawings that help to plan out a composition or idea for a photo.
What are thumbnail sketches?
This tool in Photoshop can remove blemishes and wrinkles from a face.
What is the healing tool?
This person takes photos on a camera.
What is a photographer?
Uses an artificial lighting setup that can create a variety of lighting effects, from dramatic to soft.
What is studio lighting?
Setting the camera to have a fast shutter speed (like 1/1000) will make the photo darker AND do this to moving subjects.
What is freeze motion?
The time for which the shutter on the camera is open at a given setting.
What is shutter speed?
Photograph divided into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, that creates guidelines for creating interesting compositions.
What is the rule of thirds?
In Photoshop, this tool can adjust the contrast or lightness/darkness of a photo.
What is levels?
This person edits the photos after they are taken, usually in Photoshop.
What is a retoucher?
If a photograph had only tints and shades of one color, its color scheme would be called this.
What is monochromatic?
Setting the camera to a low f-stop number (like 2.0) will make a photo lighter AND have this, where one part of the photo is in focus and the other part is blurred.
What is shallow depth of field?
The setting on a DSLR camera that allows you to control both shutter speed and aperture/F-stop.
What is Manual (M)?
The process of organizing the elements of a scene into a balanced and pleasing arrangement.
What is composition?
This allows you to adjust color in a photograph while editing it in Photoshop.
What is curves?
This type of photographer takes photos of events, incidents or people to create a press story.
What is a photojournalist?
These are two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
Setting the camera to a high ISO number (like 1200) means that the photo will be lighter, but will have a lot of this.
What is grain?
The measurement of how sensitive your camera is to light.
What is ISO?
How light or dark your image is.
What is exposure?
The tool in Photoshop that detects an image’s edges and “sticks” to the pixels in order to select something.
What is the magnetic lasso tool?
This type of photographer takes pictures for advertisements, brochures, product placements, merchandising, etc.
What is a commercial photographer?
When two photographs that have a visual and conceptual relationship are purposefully placed next to each other.
What is a diptych?
Setting the camera to have a slow shutter speed (like 2") will make the photo lighter AND do this to moving subjects.
What is blur motion?
A hole/opening in the camera’s lens through which light travels. The size of the hole can change based on the camera’s settings.
What is aperture/f-stop?
The position the camera is in when viewing a scene.
What is point of view?
If you change this on a layer in Photoshop, it affects how the layer reacts with the layer underneath. Some of the options/effects of this tool include "overlay", "soft light", "hard light" and "multiply".
What is blending mode?
This person is responsible for the visual look of the photograph or film regarding technical and artistic decisions.
What is the director of photography?
A group of colors that are located next to each other on the color wheel are called this.
What are analogous colors?
Setting the camera to a high f-stop number (like 22) will make a photo darker AND have this, where most of the photo is in focus.
What is greater depth of field?