Weekly Vocabulary

• Long Exposure Photography: The use of a long time opening for the shutter to capture light over a period of time. In the process, the light can be moved as its being captured to create shapes and words.
• Light Painting: using a long exposure time, light can be moved in the image as it is being captured to create pictures and words.
• Solargraphy: when a lensless camera is used with a long exposure time to capture the paths and movements of the sun.
• Calotype: an early process of photography that uses paper covered with silver iodine. The paper is then exposed to light, which cause all the affected areas to turn dark.

Vocab Definitions

Rule of Thirds: a rule for alining images, two horizontal and two vertical lines are used to divide an image into 9 equal parts. A specific focal point is ten used to center the image.

Depth of Field: a technique of how sharp, in focus, a particular part is in an image. To show the importance of a particular point, a low DoF is used. When a whole image is important, a large DoF is used.

DSLR( Digital Single-Lens Reflex) camera: A camera with a single, light capturing lens. This allows the viewfinder to have the same image as the image sensor.

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Vocab

METADATA: data of data. Tells the viewer information about camera used and pixels in an image

DPI: number of dots in an image per inch

PPI: the number of pixels in an image per inch

weekly challenge: faceless portrait