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What is the shutter button?
The button that you press to take a picture
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What is color balance?
The temperature of the image (sometimes too cool, or blue, sometimes too warm, or red). This can be adjusted in Photoshop to make the image look correct, or to add creative effects.
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What is the self-timer?
The option used when you want to take a photo of yourself using a 2, 5, or 10 second delay.
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What is a lens?
The piece of glass and plastic that attaches to the camera body. It is measured in millimeters, comes in different sizes. Light passes through it to reach the camera.
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What is the crop tool?
The tool that trims the edges of a photo, can also be used to change the size of the photo.
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What is a long exposure?
The term for allowing your camera to collect lots of light by leaving the shutter open, usually over a long duration of time.
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What is a strobe light?
The device used externally (or outside of the camera) to add light to a picture, usually battery powered.
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What is a JPEG?
The common file format used for pictures on computers.
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What is because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil. The camera records this refl
When you take a picture of a person or an animal with the flash turned on, red eye occurs because of _____.
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What is a backdrop?
The piece of fabric or paper placed behind the subject of a photograph to make the background clean and simple.
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What is a PSD?
The file format we use to save Photoshop Documents so that we can go back and change them later, or undo things we did before.
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What is still?
When making a stop motion animation, the camera must be completely ____ in order to not make the viewer dizzy.
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What is a memory card?
The removable piece inside the camera that the images are saved to.
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What is a layer?
The various "pieces" of the Photoshop document, each stacked on top of each other. Hint: one is usually called the "Background ____" and is always locked at first.
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What is masking tape, and what is duct tape.
Bonus question that is sort-of related to photography kinda: When using tape to create an illusion in an image, ____ tape is best; ____ tape sticks to surfaces and is hard to pull off.
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