Terms of The Day For February 19

• Photography - “light writing” or “light drawing”--the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
• Camera Obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.
• Daguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
• Photo Essay - a collection of photographs on a single subject, arranged to tell a story or convey a mood in a way not possible with a single photograph.
• Persistence of Vision - the brief retention of an image by the retina of our eyes after a stimulus is removed.
• Film Editing - a process in which a film editor selects the best shots from raw footage, then reassemles them into meaningful sequences.
• Close-Up - a shot showing only the actor’s face.
• Longshot - a shot photographed from a distance to emphasize large groups of people or a panoramic setting.
• Montage - an editing technique combining a number of very brief shots, representing distinct but related subject matter, in order to create new relationships, build strong emotion, or indicate the passage of time.