Photographic Terminology

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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice TerminologyP1, P2, M1, M2

Shutter Speed

• Shutter speed is used to control how the picture turns out the use of slow shutter speed would produce a blurred effect as it is capturing the image whilst it is still moving for example if you took a picture of a car moving it would leave a trail of lights

• Fast shutter speed is used to capture a crisp sharp image and take as much detail in as possible.

• Stick am example image here

Shutter Speed

Fast Shutter Speed Slow Shutter Speed

Iso

• Iso is the international organisation for standardisation which is also a archive file of an optical image

ISO

High ISOLow ISO

Aperture & Depth of Field

• Depth of field is the distance between the closest object and the one further away only one can be sharp and the other blurry

• Aperture is hole that light can travel through which is the lens

Aperture & Depth of Field

Narrow Depth of Field Wide Depth of Field

Manual Exposure

• By using the option on the camera you have to set the you have to set the amount of exposure yourself

Automatic Exposure

• This basically means there is a setting on the camera that will automatically set the exposure to what it needs to be

Colour Balance

• You can adjust the strength of a colour to make it warm or cold

Composition• To show distinction from a photo

composition is used by placing certain elements

Rule of thirds• The rule of thirds is where a image is split

into three sections • The whole idea behind it is that if the

object is place on one section to either the right or left it will make it more interesting

Examples of Rule of thirds

Analogous colours

• These are colours on the wheel that go well together and are next to each other

Complementary Colours• All the colours opposite each other on the

colour wheel compliment each other

Macro

• Macro is were you use extreme close ups in photography