front 1 Composition | back 1 How the elements are arranged in your photograph. |
front 2 Rule of Thirds | back 2 Compositional guideline that breaks an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically). |
front 3 Power Points | back 3 The red dots on the intersecting lines of a rule of thirds grid. These dots signify where to place the main elements of your subject. |
front 4 Negative Space | back 4 The empty areas around your subject. |
front 5 Subject | back 5 The person/object/thing that is the focal point of your photograph |
front 6 Level Horizon | back 6 The photography concept that things that should naturally be horizontal should be horizontal, not tilted. |
front 7 Fill the Frame | back 7 When the subject of a photo fills the camera screen and makes the subject the most important thing. |
front 8 Optical Zoom | back 8 Moves the camera lens farther from the image sensor, magnifying the image that reaches the sensor without decreasing the resolution or image quality. |
front 9 Digital Zoom | back 9 Shoots a cropped view of the image and then enlarges it to fill the frame by making the pixels larger. Can result in a blurry, blocky appearance. |
front 10 Background | back 10 The area around and behind the subject. |