Photo Design Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 2. Lines in a photograph have been framed and positioned by the photographer to direct the viewer's attention to a particular point of focus.
  2. 4. Background objects that compete with the main subject matter and confuse the focal point.
  3. 9. Refers to the location from which you take a photograph.
  4. 10. Used in photographs to create pattern, repetition, unity, and variety. Distinguishing shapes are shapes that are isolated and as a result, emphasized. Overlapping shapes creates repetition and a sense of unity in the photograph.
  5. 12. The arrangement of information to imply importance to guide the viewer to control order in which information is viewed
  6. 13. The regular arrangement or repetition of elements in the image.
  7. 14. A general term used to encompass trends in photography from roughly 1910-1950 when photographers began to produce works with a sharp focus and an emphasis on formal qualities, exploiting, rather than obscuring, the camera as an essentially mechanical and technological tool.
  8. 17. how the light source, natural or artificial and how the position of light source relates to your subject.
  9. 21. Found in nature; Often Symmetrical, flowing, and dynamic
  10. 22. Determines what are and aren't important parts of the photograph, either through repositioning, reshooting, or cropping the image.
  11. 23. Successful photos rely on order, and the main elements that bring and emphasize order in a photograph’s composition are: line, color, shape, contrast, emphasis, texture, and space.
  12. 24. Used to help bring your eye to the focal point. Emphasis can be created through positioning, focus, depth of field, and framing the subject matter.
  13. 25. Used in photography to create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter and help define the focal point.
  14. 26. Are often man-made, mathematically based and constructed from other shapes.
  15. 27. Used in photography to help different subjects stand out from each other, create unity and variety and add interest.
  16. 28. used in photographs to create emphasis, variety, and interest.
Down
  1. 1. Consider the weight of your objects. If one thing feels too heavy, balance it with another element.
  2. 3. Background objects that compete with the main subject matter and confuse the focal point.
  3. 5. An approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.
  4. 6. One of the most important elements in Design; conveys information through text.
  5. 7. Creates visual interest.
  6. 8. Used in photographs to move your eye around the image, lead your eye to the focal and point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis.
  7. 9. The range of light to dark in a design to create contrast, divide space in both b&w and color photos.
  8. 11. The visual size and weight of the objects in an image and how they relate to each other.
  9. 15. Also known as negative or empty space refers to the area in the design that does not contain any content to provide "breathing room" for the viewer.
  10. 16. Moving the focal point out of the center and into one of the “third” sections of the photograph frame.
  11. 18. Used to help bring your eye to the focal point. Emphasis can be created through positioning, focus, depth of field, and framing the subject matter.
  12. 19. Is created when the elements in your image harmonize, making it more cohesive/
  13. 20. In the visual arts, composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements in a work of art. The term composition means 'putting together' and can apply to any work of art, from music to writing to photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.