Cameras
A lower quality, consumer, lightweight camera with limited control settings.
What is a point and shoot camera?
Used to determine the optimum placement for the subject of the photo. Helps create balance within an image. Often demonstrated by a grid in the view when taking a photo.
What is rule of thirds?
Balanced through ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. Illustration used to demonstrate what will create a quality image.
What is Exposure?
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What is the Exposure Triangle?
Image appears bluish and cold.
What is white balance?
Exact or almost exact image on both sides of a picture to create perfect balance.
What is symmetry
Digital single lens reflex with high quality sensor.
What is a DSLR camera?
Using all of the space to create an interesting image. No "dead or empty space".
What is filling the frame?
How long light is let into the camera.
What is shutter speed?
Background of image is clear, but the basketball player in the image is blurred. He is obviously in motion.
What is shutter speed?
Unbalanced image on both sides of a picture to create a sense of balance within an image.
What is asymmetry?
Made up of hundreds or thousands of tiny "squares" that record light and color information.
What is a digital sensor?
What is foreground?
The sensitivity of the image device to light.
What is ISO?
Image appears grainy. Skin tones and other smooth color tones appear to have multiple tiny off color spots.
What is ISO?
Balancing the "weight" of a subject using the Rule of Thirds by placing an item of lesser importance to fill the space.
What is counter balance?
Must be at least 300 ppi for print and 72 ppi for web.
What is required picture resolution?
What appears furthest from the viewer in an image? May be very distracting from the subject if the photographer forgets to pay attention to it. Is the location where "photobombs" most often occur.
What is background?
How much light gets into the camera. Controlled by f-stop values. Controls depth of field.
What is aperture?
Image is "blown out". Screen appears mostly white with only hints of the actual image. - Or - Image is too dark. Screen appears mostly black.
What is the Exposure Triangle?
What are Exposure settings? (ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture)
Using repetitive items within a picture and possibly breaking the repetition with one or two items to create visual interest.
What is pattern?
Offered with the camera body, and designed for everyday photographic shooting.
What is a Kit lens?
The perfect ratio in photography. Creates a spiral effect in an image that allows the viewer to be drawn into the image.
What is the Golden Section or Golden Mean?
Unrealistic color casts, and the process of removing them from an image. May be adjusted by a separate setting on the camera.
What is white balance?
Entire image is blurred.
What is focus?
Are intended as guidelines to create quality images. May need to be broken depending upon the subject or photographic situation.
What are the rules of photography?