Key Photography Terms:

These are my own definitions of a glossary of photography terms.

Composition: Position of objects within a picture frame. The layout of an image.

Contrast: Difference between two things (light and dark. colours i.e black and white, green and red)

Narrative: Story. 

Movement: Camera shake, blur lines, low shutter speed creates the blur and high shutter speed captures the movement precisely.

Texture: Focusing on the patterns of different object which create texture.

Line: Linear form, its used when discussed composition. Lines within an image.

Macro: Enlargement (making something small, large.)

Tone: Tonal variation from light to dark in both colour/black & white. The tone of an image i.e the image.

Pattern: Surface (pattern though/to school, pattern through life, objects)

Shadow: Blocking light to create a shadow.

Negative Space: Insignificant space that frames the object in focus.

Depth Of Field: i.e landscape large depth of fields.. close up shallow of depth of field. 

Form: Shape/ physical properties contained within an image.

Atmosphere: The emotion of energy within a image.

Viewpoint: The point of view, put someone in your place.

Energy: Linked to atmosphere.

Perspective: Illusion of depth/ The lines of perspective that lead you 'into' the image. Vanishing point (disappears to a point.)

Fluid: Apply to composition/ More going out the way the eye moves about the image.

Expressive: Talk about the shade, light, dark, colour and equate to expression/ feeling. 

Abstract: An image broken down into shapes. The contents is not (immediately) recognisable. Lack of context.

Ambiguous: Open ended question, many answers. 

Manipulation: To change something.