Photography Lingo

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

Otto’s nimble fingers handled the camera with ease, aiming and snapping a photo. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer

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. Shooting Kabul

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

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

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. Into Thin Air

The cameraman set up his tripod on the sidewalk. Mr. Popper's Penguins

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

Art may be approached and appreciated for its purely visual elements: line, color, light, composition, form, and space. History of Art, Volume 1

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

I walk over to a table and find a digital camera. Shouting at the Rain

They had run out of film hours ago. Slaughterhouse-Five

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. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn