This document defines photographic terminology including shutter speed, ISO, aperture, depth of field, manual and automatic exposure, color balance, composition, the rule of thirds, analogous colors, complementary colors, and macro photography. Shutter speed controls image blur with fast speeds producing sharp images and slow speeds creating motion trails. Aperture determines depth of field with wide apertures having shallow depth of field. ISO is the camera's light sensitivity setting.

1. Photographic Terminology
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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice Terminology
P1, P2, M1, M2

2. Shutter Speed
• Shutter speed is used to control how the
picture turns out the use of slow shutter
speed would produce a blurred effect as it
is capturing the image whilst it is still
moving for example if you took a picture
of a car moving it would leave a trail of
lights
• Fast shutter speed is used to capture a
crisp sharp image and take as much detail
in as possible.
• Stick am example image
here

3. Shutter Speed
Fast Shutter Speed Slow Shutter Speed

4. Iso
• Iso is the international organisation for
standardisation which is also a archive file
of an optical image

5. ISO
High ISOLow ISO

6. Aperture & Depth of Field
• Depth of field is the distance between the
closest object and the one further away
only one can be sharp and the other
blurry
• Aperture is hole that light can travel
through which is the lens

7. Aperture & Depth of Field
Narrow Depth of Field Wide Depth of Field

8. Manual Exposure
• By using the option on
the camera you have to
set the you have to set
the amount of exposure
yourself

9. Automatic Exposure
• This basically means there is a setting on
the camera that will automatically set the
exposure to what it needs to be

10. Colour Balance
• You can adjust the
strength of a colour to
make it warm or cold

11. Composition
• To show distinction from a photo
composition is used by placing certain
elements

12. Rule of thirds
• The rule of thirds is where a image is split
into three sections
• The whole idea behind it is that if the
object is place on one section to either
the right or left it will make it more
interesting

13. Examples of Rule of thirds

14. Analogous colours
• These are colours on
the wheel that go well
together and are next
to each other

15. Complementary Colours
• All the colours opposite each other on the
colour wheel compliment each other

16. Macro
• Macro is were you use
extreme close ups in
photography