Weekly Vocabulary!

1.Collage
Meaning: a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
Native Language: комбинация разнородных элементов
Context: Our art school offers a Collage classes, also i have seen couple of collage works at my site

2. Twitch
Meaning: to jerk rapidly
Native Language: подергивание, судорога; резкое вздрагивание; конвульсия
Context: My mentor said that his eye is twitching, b/c he have been working for the past 9 days without a single day off

3. Welding
Meaning: To join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point.
Native Language: сварка
Context: As i was walking through the hallway at my art school, i seen a very bright light in one of out studios. My mentor said that we also provide a welding classes.

4. Aperture
Meaning: an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.
Native Language: отверстие; скважина; дыра, дырка, щель
Context: In photography class we learned that certain buttons responsible for the size of the aperture. Aperture is responsible for how much light get into your camera.

5. Shutter Speed
Meaning: is the length of time a shutter is open; the total exposure is proportional to this exposure time, or duration of light reaching the film or image sensor.
Native Language: интервал времени, в течение которого затвор фотоаппарата открыт для получения кадра (экспонирования кадра). Выдержка задает время воздействия световых лучей на фотоматериал.
Context: I have been taught in the class that shutter speed is like our eye blinking, it can be long or short one. And that is one of the reasons why your picture is not the way you wanted.