Terminolgy

Photographic terminology

Lauren Shaw

Shutter speed.

• What is shutter speed?The time in which the shutter is open at a given setting.What effect does it have on your images?Slow shutter speed can achieve a motion blur for moving objects. shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light.

Fast and slow shutter speed

Fast shutter speed

Slow shutter speed

ISO

• In Digital Photography ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The same principles apply as in film photography – the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds.

High and low ISO

Low ISO

High ISO

Aperture & Depth of field

Manual exposure

• For most cameras this means using an on-board TTL exposure meter. Aperture priority mode gives the photographer manual control of the aperture

Automatic exposure

• gives the photographer manual control of the aperture, whilst the camera automatically adjusts the shutter speed to achieve the exposure specified by the TTL meter.

Colour balance

• Formal balance can be defined as symmetrical balance. frame the shot so that one or more identical or similar subjects are repeated symmetrical on each sides of a given point.

White balanceWhite balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo.

Composition

• the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

Rule of Thirds The rule of thirds is applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.

Analogous colours

• Analogous colors are groups of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and a tertiary. Red, orange, and red-orange are examples.

Complementary colours

a colour that combined with a given colour makes white or black.

Macrorelating to macrophotography."your lens has a macro setting for

shooting big close-ups"