{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/photography-terms",
 "id": "photography-terms",
 "title": "Photography Terms",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Photography",
 "levels": [
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Camera settings, composition ideas and photo words.",
 "tags": [
  "photography",
  "camera",
  "exposure"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Aperture",
   "The opening in a lens that lets light in"
  ],
  [
   "f-stop",
   "A number describing the size of the aperture; smaller number means bigger opening"
  ],
  [
   "Shutter speed",
   "How long the camera's shutter stays open"
  ],
  [
   "ISO",
   "How sensitive the camera sensor is to light"
  ],
  [
   "Exposure",
   "The amount of light that reaches the sensor"
  ],
  [
   "Exposure triangle",
   "The balance of aperture, shutter speed and ISO"
  ],
  [
   "Overexposed",
   "Too much light, picture too bright"
  ],
  [
   "Underexposed",
   "Too little light, picture too dark"
  ],
  [
   "Depth of field",
   "How much of the picture is in sharp focus from near to far"
  ],
  [
   "Shallow depth of field",
   "Only a small part is sharp, background blurry; made with wide aperture"
  ],
  [
   "Deep depth of field",
   "Most of the picture is sharp; made with small aperture"
  ],
  [
   "Bokeh",
   "The soft blur of out-of-focus lights in the background"
  ],
  [
   "Focus",
   "Making the subject look sharp"
  ],
  [
   "Autofocus",
   "The camera chooses focus automatically"
  ],
  [
   "Focal length",
   "Distance from lens to sensor in millimeters, deciding how zoomed in the view is"
  ],
  [
   "Wide-angle lens",
   "Lens that captures a wide scene"
  ],
  [
   "Telephoto lens",
   "Lens that brings faraway subjects closer"
  ],
  [
   "Zoom lens",
   "A lens with a changeable focal length"
  ],
  [
   "Macro lens",
   "Lens for extreme close-ups of small things"
  ],
  [
   "Fisheye lens",
   "An ultra-wide lens that bends the picture into a bubble look"
  ],
  [
   "Fast shutter speed",
   "Freezes motion"
  ],
  [
   "Slow shutter speed",
   "Blurs motion and lets in more light"
  ],
  [
   "Motion blur",
   "Streaks caused by movement during exposure"
  ],
  [
   "Panning",
   "Moving the camera with a moving subject to blur the background"
  ],
  [
   "Long exposure",
   "A slow shutter for light trails or smooth water"
  ],
  [
   "White balance",
   "Adjusting colors so white looks white under different lights"
  ],
  [
   "Flash",
   "A burst of light to brighten a scene"
  ],
  [
   "Natural light",
   "Light from the sun"
  ],
  [
   "Golden hour",
   "Time just after sunrise or before sunset with warm, soft light"
  ],
  [
   "Blue hour",
   "Time just before sunrise or after sunset with deep blue light"
  ],
  [
   "Backlight",
   "Light coming from behind the subject"
  ],
  [
   "Silhouette",
   "A dark shape of a subject against a bright background"
  ],
  [
   "Tripod",
   "A three-legged stand that keeps a camera steady"
  ],
  [
   "Viewfinder",
   "The window you look through to frame the picture"
  ],
  [
   "Sensor",
   "The part of a digital camera that records light"
  ],
  [
   "Megapixel",
   "One million pixels, a measure of picture detail"
  ],
  [
   "Pixel",
   "One tiny dot of a digital image"
  ],
  [
   "Resolution",
   "The amount of detail in an image"
  ],
  [
   "RAW",
   "An unprocessed image file with lots of data"
  ],
  [
   "JPEG",
   "A common compressed image file format"
  ],
  [
   "DSLR",
   "A digital camera with a mirror and viewfinder (single-lens reflex)"
  ],
  [
   "Mirrorless camera",
   "A digital camera without a mirror box"
  ],
  [
   "Composition",
   "How things are arranged in the frame"
  ],
  [
   "Rule of thirds",
   "Placing the subject along lines splitting the frame in thirds"
  ],
  [
   "Leading lines",
   "Lines in a scene that lead the eye to the subject"
  ],
  [
   "Framing",
   "Using objects in the scene to make a frame around the subject"
  ],
  [
   "Symmetry",
   "Matching halves in a photo"
  ],
  [
   "Close-up",
   "A picture taken near the subject"
  ],
  [
   "Wide shot",
   "A picture showing the whole scene"
  ],
  [
   "Portrait orientation",
   "Taller than wide"
  ],
  [
   "Landscape orientation",
   "Wider than tall"
  ],
  [
   "Aspect ratio",
   "The width compared to the height of a picture"
  ],
  [
   "Crop",
   "Cut away the edges of a picture"
  ],
  [
   "Contrast (photo)",
   "The difference between light and dark areas"
  ],
  [
   "Saturation (photo)",
   "How strong the colors are"
  ],
  [
   "Candid photo",
   "A natural photo of someone who is not posing"
  ],
  [
   "Selfie",
   "A photo you take of yourself"
  ],
  [
   "Photojournalism",
   "Telling news stories with photographs"
  ],
  [
   "Daguerreotype",
   "An early photograph on a metal plate from 1839"
  ],
  [
   "Camera obscura",
   "A dark room or box with a tiny hole that projects an image"
  ],
  [
   "Ansel Adams",
   "American photographer famous for black and white landscapes of Yosemite"
  ],
  [
   "Dorothea Lange",
   "American photographer who took Migrant Mother in 1936"
  ],
  [
   "Instant camera",
   "A camera that prints the photo right away"
  ],
  [
   "Black and white photography",
   "Photos with no color, only shades of gray"
  ]
 ]
}