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Top Ten iPhoto Tips http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/08/iphoto_tips.html?page=1

Top Ten Tips for Great Pictures http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/38/39/317&pq-locale=en_USPhotography



COMPOSITION is something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; a mixture of ingredients; the way in which something is put together.

THEME is a common thread or repeated idea that is used throughout a work. A theme is a thought or idea the author presents to the reader that may be deep, difficult to understand, or even moralistic. A theme can illustrate what the author/artist wants to say about life or about people.

TONE is the attitude an artist or a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, fearful, solemn, objective. Similar to Mood.

MOOD is the emotional attitude the author/artist takes towards his subject.

POINT of VIEW is the way the subject or events are presented to the reader/viewer; it is the “vantage point” from which a picture is passed from the artist to the viewer or a story is passed from the author to the reader.

JUXTAPOSITION is a side-by-side placement of objects used for the purpose of calling attention to the difference or similarity

TEXTURE is the feel of a surface; the visual appearance of a surface which has qualities associated with the sense of touch; the intermixing of sounds, for example in a film soundtrack where cars, guns and street noise combine to provide a physical sense of the location.

CONTRAST in an image or scene means the amount of difference between the lightest and darkest areas; In literature, an author writes contrast when he or she describes the difference(s) between two or more things. For example, in the first four lines of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Shakespeare contrasts a mistress to the sun, coral, snow, and wire.

FRAME is a border which outlines and enhances a photo; in literature a frame is a story which tells another story inside of it. For example, Frankenstein is a story about a man telling people the story of how he created a monster out of dead people’s body parts.

DEPTH of FIELD is the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus; the area of a photograph that is in focus.

RULE of THIRDS is a composition rule that divides the scene into three rows and three columns. The rule states that the picture is much more interesting if the focal point is not in the center of the photo but rather in one of the outlying regions, preferably at one of the intersection points //~Vocabulary compiled and edited by Carol Johnson//