Unit57terminology
- 1. Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice Terminology (P1, P2, M1, M2) Term Explanation of term e.g. what it Examples is used for / the effect it has on your images Shutter Speed A shutter speed is the length of time in which a camera’s shutter is open during a photo being taken. The longer the shutter speeds the more it is exposed to light. A short and long shutter speed changes the amount of movement in a picture. ISO ISO is the measurement of sensitivity of film or photos to light. The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re taking. Aperture & Aperture is opening in which light Depth of field (F travels through camera lenses. The stop) more narrow the aperture the sharper the focus. The Depth is the distance between an object and the camera. Different depths mean different focuses. Automatic Exposure is the amount of light that fall Exposure into the image sensor in a camera during a shutter cycle. Automatic exposure is where the camera automatically adjusts the camera depending on the amount of exposure.
- 2. Manual Manual Exposure unlike automatic Exposure exposure is where a photographer manually adjusts the aperture of the camera to create more exposure or less. Colour Balance Colour Balance is the adjustment of primary colours within a photo correcting what the camera is going to take. On some cameras you can get a colour correcting lenses. Composition A composition is where objects are placed in a certain way or the camera is placed in a way that captures a certain frame. Rule of thirds The rule of thirds is where the main part of the photo is not necessarily in the middle. In the photo on the right it is cut into nine intersections. The main part of the image is the boat and is in a bottom corner of the middle intersection.
- 3. Complementar These types of colours are found in y Colours opposite sides in the colour spectrum, such as red and green. Analogous These types of colours are adjacent to colours each other on the colour wheel. These colours usually compliment these each other. Macro Macro photography is photography that uses extreme close ups so that they can capture small objects. It can make the object look bigger than it already is.