front 1 Leading space | back 1 the greater space left in front of the subject for them to move into. |
front 2 Depth | back 2 vertically and horizontally in one plane, and closer and further away as well. |
front 3 Direction of movement | back 3 the feeling that a photo’s subject is moving across the photo. |
front 4 Framing | back 4 a technique using something in the foreground that “frames the subject and leads the eye into the photo to focus on the subject. |
front 5 Filling the frame | back 5 concept where the subject is made the most important thing by having it fill the camera screen. |
front 6 Leading lines | back 6 straight, curved, parallel, or diagonal lines that pull your eye into or through a photo. |
front 7 Freezing action | back 7 technique that stops movement and allows you to see something that would have happened too quickly to see without the benefit of photography. |
front 8 Overexposure | back 8 too much light reaches the camera’s sensor producing photos that are way too bright. |
front 9 Underexposure | back 9 too little light reaches the camera’s sensor producing photos that are way too dark. |
front 10 Blown out | back 10 when a photo is way overexposed, the bright parts of the photo appear all white with no detail. |
front 11 Silhouettes | back 11 black shape with light coming from behind the subject. |
front 12 Backlighting | back 12 light coming from behind the subject |
front 13 Flash glare | back 13 bright spot of light bounced back from a reflective surface. |
front 14 Fill flash | back 14 combines the effects of the natural light from behind the subject with light from your camera’s flash in front of the subject. |