PHOTOGRAPHIC TERMINOLOGY___Shannon Orr____

Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice TerminologyP1, P2, M1, M2

SHUTTER SPEED

shutter speed is the amount of time that the

shutter on the camera lens is open, this is

measured in seconds most often than not it is

measured in fractions of seconds, the bigger the

denominator is the faster the shutter speed will be

for example 1/1000 is much faster than 1/30

Mainly you will be using shutters speeds around

1/60th of a second, you will be doing this because

anything smaller than 1/60th would make it

difficult to get a clear picture without the camera

shaking if you aren't using a camera.

Shutter Speed 1/160 sec

Shutter speed 1/6 sec

SHUTTER SPEED

Fast Shutter Speed Slow Shutter Speed

Shutter speed 1/250 sec Shutter speed 1/13 sec

ISO ISO short for International Organisation for

Standardization.

ISO is a setting on the camera which controls how

bright a photo is for example the first two images

are very bright as the ISO is to bright where as in

the other two photos the ISO is correct so the

photos look better.

The higher the ISO number the more sensitive the

camera is to light therefore leaving you with I very

bright funny looking photo, where as the lower the

number the better the photo will be.

ISO - 200 ISO - 450

ISO - 400 ISO - 200

ISO

High ISO Low ISO

F-stop - F/4

Exposure time – 1/60 SEC

ISO speed – ISO/400

F-stop - f/5.6

Exposure time – 1/25 sec

ISO sped – ISO/320

APERTURE & DEPTH OF FIELD

Aperture and depth field is what is in focus in

the shot and what isn't.

For example the first two images the f-stop is

lower therefore there is only a small amount of

the image in focus where as on the other two

images the f-stop is higher meaning more is in

focus, so over all the higher the f-stop the more

widely focused the camera will be as to a lower

f-stop where there will only be s small amount

in focus.

Aperture – f/5.6

Aperture – f/9Aperture – f/5.6

Aperture – f/8

APERTURE & DEPTH OF FIELD

Narrow Depth of Field Wide Depth of Field

Aperture – f/6.3 Aperture – f/10

MANUAL EXPOSURE

Manual exposure is where the camera is set to

manual and the user can set there own ISO,

white balance etc, instead of using auto where

the camera chooses its self.

WHITE BALANCE

White balance is a setting on the camera where

you are able to chose the kind of lighting for

the photo you are shooting.

As you can see in the top photo the light was

set to Tungsten and it was a bright day thing

led to the photo being a blue-ish colour where

as in the bottom photo I set the camera to auto

the photo looks much better.

Tungsten

Auto

RULE OF THIRDS

Rule of thirds is made up it is not actually

there you imagine a grid made up of 3x3

squares when looking through the viewfinder so

that you can frame your shot correctly.

With the imaginary grid in mind the ‘rule of

thirds’, gives you 4 lines which are useful in

positioning the elements of your photo.

F-stop – f/5 exposure time- 1/1600 sec

F-stop – f/5 exposure time- 1/1600 sec

EXAMPLES OF RULE OF THIRDS

F-stop – f/5 exposure time- 1/1600 sec

F-stop – f/8 exposure time- 1/250 sec ISO speed – ISO- 100F-stop – f/5.6 exposure time- 1/125 sec ISO speed – ISO- 250

F-stop – f/8 exposure time- 1/100 sec ISO speed – ISO- 400