A muse is a “woman or a force personified as a woman who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist.” In Latin, a shrine to the Muses was called a museum. Artists or poets would call on their Muse to inspire them and a poem itself might begin with such a call.

These days not every photographer started making images with film cameras but any understanding of how to obtain proper exposure is helped with just a little bit of information about how film capture worked and still works today.