Photo Basics
This is the 2 types of shooting modes on your camera
What is Automatic and Manual Focus?
A basic tool with one main objective – to stabilize your camera.
What is a tripod?
The theme for this year's yearbook.
What is abstract?
A type of photography that takes place in the air.
What is aerial photography?
The famous photographer best known for his amazing black and white nature photographs.
Who is Ansel Adams?
The ideal ISO setting
What is 100/200 ISO?
Glass and/or mirror assemblage in a camera that allows you to take a picture.
What is a camera lens?
How many RTA Events there are to photograph for the RTA Yearbook. (Not counting the Sno-Cone Social).
What is 5. (Scavenger Hunt, Bonfire, Ice Skating, Bowling, Game Night)
The arrangement of the elements in your photo.
What is composition.
This is said to be the worst time to take photos.
What is mid-day?
Controls the amount of light entering the camera. It's also measured in f-stops.
What is aperture?
The part of the camera you physically look through when you are about to capture the subject or scene in a photograph.
What is the viewfinder?
The quote we decided on for the Game Night page.
What is "Let the good times roll"
Unequal visual weight on either side of a photo. But those visual elements balance out each other.
What is asymmetrical balance?
With your camera set to this mode, you can independently adjust the aperture (generally by turning the mode dial on your camera), while your camera selects a corresponding shutter speed. (You can also independently adjust the ISO).
What is Aperture Priority Mode?
The distance between the nearest and furthest elements in a scene that appear to be "acceptably sharp" in an image.
What is Depth of Field?
The button you press to take your picture.
What is the shutter-release button?
The last page in the yearbook.
What is the signature page?
Using elements in the scene to surround some parts of the image in order to draw the viewer's attention to the subject. For example, you might shoot through an arch, a doorway, or pulled-back curtains to create this compositional effect.
What is framing?
Name 3 of the 7 key elements key to layout & design.
What is emphasis, movement, white/negative space, contrast, alignment, proximity, and/or repetition.
This is a setting used for capturing light-based images (especially fast-moving light sources).
What is bulb-mode?
This tool is commonly used in photography as a soft source of light that minimizes harsh shadows. Specifically within the genre of portrait photography.
What is a softbox?
What is a spread?
Similar to the Rule of Thirds, this helps make a sort of grid (which resembles a snail’s shell) and is a composition technique where you place the focal point of your photograph at the tip of a spiral, and position other elements to spiral out from it. Think about a circular staircase and photographing that from above.
What is the Fibonacci (or Golden) Spiral?
A photographer we learned about who received a chemical engineering degree and got his MD at Harvard Medicine School, who then decided to pursue photography as a career.
Who is Eliot Porter?