Photography Lingo

I don’t know when the man in that photograph became the man I know as my father.

Otto’s nimble fingers handled the camera with ease, aiming and snapping a photo.

He snapped the back of the camera shut and chose the appropriate shutter and aperture settings, which controlled the amount of light the film would be exposed to.

With only twelve exposures on a roll, she learned to be careful in composing her shots.

“No,” I told her as I focused Grandpa’s camera, “you didn’t. They just gather the bones. Only humans bury their dead.”

Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens at the upper Southeast Ridge, I was surprised to see four antlike figures moving almost imperceptibly toward the South Summit.

The cameraman set up his tripod on the sidewalk.

The crowd held up phones and cameras, flashes snapping, cameras beeping.

Art may be approached and appreciated for its purely visual elements: line, color, light, composition, form, and space.

The optical sensors seem to have mistaken Alpha and Beta Centauri for Canopus.

I walk over to a table and find a digital camera.

They had run out of film hours ago.

They are at the same time deeply intimate snaps of a future Grammy-winning artist and yet often just ordinary shots of a child growing up in what seems a loving home.
– The Seattle Times

She had to be content with letting Flossie Gaddis, who had a box camera, take a snapshot.