Social Commentary Vocabulary

What are the main elements that bring order in a photograph's composition?

• Line, color, shape, contrast, emphasis, texture, and space.

• To move your eye around the image, lead your eye to the focal point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis.

• To create emphasis, variety, and interest.

• Creates pattern, repetition, unity, and variety. Distinguishing shapes are isolated and emphasized, while overlapping shapes create repetition and unity.

How is 'line' used in photography?

• Line, color, shape, contrast, emphasis, texture, and space.

• To move your eye around the image, lead your eye to the focal point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis.

• To create emphasis, variety, and interest.

• Creates pattern, repetition, unity, and variety. Distinguishing shapes are isolated and emphasized, while overlapping shapes create repetition and unity.

What role does 'color' play in photographs?

• Line, color, shape, contrast, emphasis, texture, and space.

• To move your eye around the image, lead your eye to the focal point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis.

• To create emphasis, variety, and interest.

• Creates pattern, repetition, unity, and variety. Distinguishing shapes are isolated and emphasized, while overlapping shapes create repetition and unity.

How does 'shape' contribute to a photograph?

• Line, color, shape, contrast, emphasis, texture, and space.

• To move your eye around the image, lead your eye to the focal point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis.

• To create emphasis, variety, and interest.

• Creates pattern, repetition, unity, and variety. Distinguishing shapes are isolated and emphasized, while overlapping shapes create repetition and unity.

Define 'contrast' in photography.

• The arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) to create visual interest, excitement, and drama.

• Used to bring your eye to the focal point, created through positioning, focus, depth of field, and framing.

• To help different subjects stand out, create unity and variety, and add interest.

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

What is 'emphasis' in photography?

• The arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) to create visual interest, excitement, and drama.

• Used to bring your eye to the focal point, created through positioning, focus, depth of field, and framing.

• To help different subjects stand out, create unity and variety, and add interest.

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

How is 'texture' used in photography?

• The arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) to create visual interest, excitement, and drama.

• Used to bring your eye to the focal point, created through positioning, focus, depth of field, and framing.

• To help different subjects stand out, create unity and variety, and add interest.

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

What is the purpose of 'space' in photography?

• To help different subjects stand out, create unity and variety, and add interest.

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

• Color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.

• The ways that artists use the elements of art in a work of art, including balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, repetition, pattern, rhythm, contrast, unity, and variety.

What are the elements of art?

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

• Color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.

• The ways that artists use the elements of art in a work of art, including balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, repetition, pattern, rhythm, contrast, unity, and variety.

• The placement or arrangement of visual elements in a work of art, arranged using conscious thought.

What do the principles of design describe?

• Color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.

• The ways that artists use the elements of art in a work of art, including balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, repetition, pattern, rhythm, contrast, unity, and variety.

• To create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

• The placement or arrangement of visual elements in a work of art, arranged using conscious thought.