Photography Vocabulary Practice

Answer each of the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. (You may type your answers or handwrite them, your choice)

  1. What do you call the main focus point of a photograph?
  2. When taking photos, a photographer should always ________  ___________  ____________, which means that they should leave very little dead space in their photos.
  3. A picture taken where the subject is in between the camera and the light source is called what?
  4. A _____________ is when part of the background of a picture blends together with part of the foreground of a picture to give the illusion that they are one object.
  5. What do you call a photo that the photographer told the subjects where and how to stand?
  6. The differences between lightness and darkness in a photo is called what?
  7. What do you call the type of photo that sets the subject in context to the place, the situation and what is going on?
  8. Taking a photo and then cutting down to only use a section of the photo is called what?
  9. To help photographers avoid plain, straight on shots, they should ___________  ________  _______________.
  10. A shot that shows 1 to 3 people is called what?
  11. What rule helps photographers to have better photos by having similar shapes objects or lines over and over again?
  12. Taking a small photo and making it larger is called what?
  13. Story telling photos that are not set up by the photographer are called what?
  14. A shot that shows 4-10 people interacting is called what?
  15. Empty space that distracts from the subject is called what?
  16. The area of a photo that is behind the subject and provides the scenery for the photo is called what?
  17. An extreme close up shot is called what?
  18. The rule of placing a mental tic-tac-toe grid on top of a picture and putting the subjects at the intersections of the grid is called what?
  19. The area and other objects at the front of a picture with the subject is called what?
  20. The rule of photography that helps photographers keep their pictures from having a flat appearance.




     
  21. What flaw does this photo clearly demonstrate?


 

22. What rules does this photo clearly clearly demonstrate?

 

23. Write a 3 sentence critique of this photo. (What rules did they use well, how could they improve it, do you like it, etc...)