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Photography Vocabulary Test

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Aperture   Controls the amount of light that reaches a digital camera sensor.  
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F-Stop   The diameter of an aperture is measured in this.  
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Angle   Is the tilt we give the camera when we hold it while shooting a picture.  
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Framing the Shot   The first thing to decide before taking the picture is what's the main subject then we can do this.  
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Optical Zooming   The movement of the physical lenses to magnify the subject of the photos.  
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Digital Zooming   Crops the image and magnifies the results of the cropping (interpolation).  
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JPEG   A standarized format used by many digital cameras for storing images - stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.  
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Pixel   The smallest element of a digitized image. One small dot of light among the many dots that make up an image.  
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Mega-Pixels   Size of the camera's sensor. The larger the number the more information the camera'ss sensor can capture and the more an image can be enlarged.  
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Resolution   The measure of the quality of a digital picture as well as an indicator of its possible size for editing or enlarging.  
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View Finder   Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest.  
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Shutter   A mechanical device of a camera that controls the duration of a photographic exposure, as by opening and closing to allow light coming through the lens to expose the image.  
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Focal Length   Is a measure of how much a camera lens can magnify a scene.  
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Wide Angle   is a short focal length that creates a wide, spacious view; usually around 18mm to 35 or 55mm view.  
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Telephoto Lense   allows you to zoom in on a the action and include a very narrow field of view; usually the lenses go from 75mm to 300mm and up.  
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