week three

Question 1

white balance

Answer 1

process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person appear white in your photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the “color temperature” of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light.

Question 2

kelvin

Answer 2

represents the temperature of light, directly correlated with the color of the burning carbon at that temperature. When you “shoot in Kelvin”, you are manually adjusting the camera’s white balance to match that of the Kelvin temperature in the scene.

Question 3

clipping

Answer 3

happens when you have areas with no information in your photo. When an area has no information, it is either pure white (clipped highlights) or pure black (clipped shadows). Some cameras will show a zebra stripe overlay on the live view of your photo to show areas that are clipping or “blown out”.

Question 4

exposure compensation

Answer 4

allows photographers to override exposure settings picked by a camera’s light meter, in order to darken or brighten images before they are captured. This is commonly in + or - 3 stops of light where + values brighten the exposure and - values darken the image.

Question 5

focus peaking

Answer 5

a focusing aid in live preview or electronic viewfinders on digital cameras that places a white or colored highlight on in-focus edges within an image using an edge detect filter.