Terms 7/13/2013

Question 1

Alignment

Answer 1

Match up lines evenly

Question 2

Arrangement

Answer 2

The picture’s structure or organization

Question 3

Audience

Answer 3

group of people who will see, hear or experience a performance, work of art, photograph or any other form of written or verbal communication

Question 4

Background/Foreground

Answer 4

the relative spatial location of images, whether up front or in the back/margins of pictures

Question 5

Bokeh

Answer 5

the blurred/out of focus area in a picture. It is highly desirable for portrait shots to include bokeh as part of the background

Question 6

Caption

Answer 6

Writing juxtaposed next to or below the picture

Question 7

Color

Answer 7

Reflected light that is perceived by human beings as variations of the primary shades (red, blue yellow). Color is used to meet or break a convention i art, or to evoke an emotion

Question 8

Frame

Answer 8

The size and extent

Question 9

Content

Answer 9

The meaning or message behind a work of art. Every photograph, painting, novel, essay, or movie usually has a theme or idea that it tries to convey to its audience

Question 10

Depth of Field

Answer 10

The distance between the closest and farthest subjects in a frame that look sharp in a picture

Question 11

Gaze

Answer 11

A way of looking a a picture or text. The creator/writer is often aware of the gaze of the audience, judging and evaluating his/her work. The photographer/editor also has a gaze directed at his/her subject

Question 12

Context

Answer 12

Whatever surrounds a word, image passage or text. Knowing the immediate context of an excerpt helps explain its full meaning. In a larger sense, context can refer to the historical, social or economic moment from which a text emerged.

Question 13

Contrast

Answer 13

A process that highlights the differences between two or more objects

Question 14

Composition

Answer 14

How you put a picture together and the choices you make as you set it up

Question 15

Rule of 1/3

Answer 15

Basic guideline of photography that suggests the grid is divided into 9 sections and the photographer should place the photograph along the lines of the grid in one of those sections. The main parts of the photograph should be placed where the lines intersect

Question 16

Ethos

Answer 16

focus on the writer/artist/photographer and his/her perspective and gaze as he/she took the picture

Question 17

Exposure

Answer 17

The amount of light that is allowed into the camera when you take a picture. Pictures can be overexposed or underexposed

Question 18

Overexposed

Answer 18

Too much light, the picture is over bright and details are lost

Question 19

Underexposed

Answer 19

Not enough light, dark picture

Question 20

Exposure Triangle

Answer 20

Aperture, ISO, and Shutter Speed

Question 21

Aperture

Answer 21

The size of the opening of the lens when a picture is taken

Question 22

ISO

Answer 22

Camera’s image sensor sensitivity to light

Question 23

Shutter Speed

Answer 23

The amount of time the shutter is open

Question 24

Format

Answer 24

The physical dimensions or components of something

Question 25

Focus

Answer 25

The point int he picture that you target in your viewer

Question 26

Frame

Answer 26

The limit of what is recorded in a painting, photograph, or image at a given time

Question 27

Images

Answer 27

Visual pictures

Question 28

Interpreation

Answer 28

Finding and creating meaning in artifacts or language. Making value judgments based on our own experiences

Question 29

Lens

Answer 29

The instrument through which light is allowed into your camera

Question 30

Logos

Answer 30

Focus on the subject and context of the picture

Question 31

Macro

Answer 31

Extreme Close up (flowers and insects are often subjects of macro-photography)

Question 32

Message

Answer 32

A term that refers to what a text/picture is saying

Question 33

Meter

Answer 33

Measure of available light

Question 34

Mood

Answer 34

The emotional quality of a work created through the use of images and setting

Question 35

Pathos

Answer 35

One part of the rhetorical triangle, focusing on emotional appeals and the audience

Question 36

Pattern

Answer 36

A series of images or pieces of information that, when considered as a whole, conveys a certain message or agenda

Question 37

Perspective/Point of View

Answer 37

A particular way of seeing, literally or figuratively

Question 38

Pixel

Answer 38

One of the tiny dots that make up a picture, can be in the millions

Question 39

Pose

Answer 39

Stance take in a picture, often staged

Question 40

Representation

Answer 40

The depiction of a person, place, thing or idea

Question 41

Rhetorical Triangle

Answer 41

In photography and literature, it relays modes of persuasion or communication. The 3 parts are logos (subject/content), pathos (audience/context) and ethos (photographer’s perspective)

Question 42

Sequence

Answer 42

The arrangement of images, objects or words in a series

Question 43

Setting

Answer 43

Time, location, and historical context in which a work exists

Question 44

Sepia

Answer 44

Dark brown grayish color used in photographs

Question 45

Space or Spatial Location

Answer 45

Distance/Location/Relationship of objects in relation to one another

Question 46

Visual

Answer 46

Connected to eyesight

Question 47

Texture

Answer 47

Tactile appeal or sensation of touch, element of design in visual arts, also known as “dirtying up”

Question 48

Zoom

Answer 48

Hone in on certain details or move outwards in terms of focus