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Photography Basics
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visual-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. If you're hand holding your camera - your shutter speed should not be slower than the reciprocal of your effective focal length (but not lower than 1/50th of a second) in order to avoid 'camera shake -' i.e. the blur that results from any slight move
GIF
Interpolation
Reciprocal Rule
ISO
2. In a studio - the main light is placed fairly high - directly in front of the face - aimed at the center of the nose. It casts a shadow shaped like a butterfly beneath the nose.
Lens Hood
Butterfly Lighting
Bulb 'B' setting
Monochrome
3. A shutter speed dial setting that indicates that the shutter will remain open as long as the release button is depressed - also known as the 'B setting ' or 'Bulb' setting. The 'B' setting is used for time exposures.
4. Occurs when saving a digital image file in a format that does not result in a loss of data. A TIFF and PSD documents are examples of lossless image formats
Ambient Light
Lossless
Model Release
FPS
5. Lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the film format or of a digital camera's image sensor. A scene viewed through a normal lens appears to have the same perspective as if it was being viewed 'normally' without a lens - jus
Normal Lens
RGB
Painting with Light
Reflector
6. An accessory that attaches as a collar to the front of a lens to prevent stray light from striking the surface of the lens - causing flare
RGB
Reflector
Lens Hood
JPEG (also known as JPG)
7. A function or shooting mode of a semi-automatic camera that permits the photographer to preset the aperture and leaves the camera to automatically determine the correct shutter speed. What does that mean? You select the aperture setting you want and
Rule of Thirds
Depth of Field
Aperture Priority
Painting with Light
8. (Graphics Interchange Format) is a small image file format that supports transparency and is constrained to a maximum of 256 colors - generally making it a poor choice for your digital images. When it was created - most computer video cards were able
GIF
Reflector
TIFF
Ambient Light
9. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
High Key
Through-the-Lens
Lossy
Megapixel
10. Film speed or sensitivity is designated by a single - almost universally-accepted common system developed by the International Organization for Standardization which uses the initials 'ISO' before the film-speed number or digital camera's sensitivity
ISO
JPEG (also known as JPG)
UV Filter
GIF
11. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Rembrandt Lighting
Golden Hour
f-stop
Megapixel
12. The time an hour or less before the sun goes down and around fifteen minutes after the sun has set. Sunlight is usually warmer and more complimentary to skin tones at this time - and the angle of the light can provide depth to portraits and landscape
Golden Hour
Rule of Thirds
Model Release
Kelvin
13. A digital camera analyzes a scene using its white balance mode to determine areas that should be recorded as pure white. The camera adjusts the overall scene's color balance so that the areas meant to be reproduced as white in the picture will be whi
White Balance
Low Key
Low Key
Reflector
14. Existing light surrounding a subject; the light that is illuminating a scene without any additional light supplied by the photographer. This is also called 'available light'.
Butterfly Lighting
GIF
Aperture Priority
Ambient Light
15. Occurs when the photographer incrementally lights an otherwise darkened scene using a handheld flashlight or other small light source while the shutter remains open during a time exposure. The light is added to the scene in the manner of an artist us
Interpolation
UV Filter
Painting with Light
Kelvin
16. Adding new pixels to a digital image between existing pixels. Interpolation software analyzes the adjacent pixels to create the new ones when enlarging an image file.
White Balance
Interpolation
FPS
Rule of Thirds
17. Sometimes called camera raw - raw format - raw image format and raw. A digital image storage format that contains the most information possible from a camera's sensor. RAW data ( a RAW image file) is unprocessed. Some folks consider it to be the digi
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Bokeh
Raw Image
Aperture Priority
18. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Lens Hood
Model Release
UV Filter
RGB
19. A digital camera analyzes a scene using its white balance mode to determine areas that should be recorded as pure white. The camera adjusts the overall scene's color balance so that the areas meant to be reproduced as white in the picture will be whi
White Balance
Bulb 'B' setting
Megapixel
Through-the-Lens
20. An image file type created in Adobe PhotoShop that results in pictures that are viewable with Adobe Acrobat - so someone (Mac or PC-user) who doesn't have PhotoShop can still view the image. It is often used in forms creation and for documents that r
DSLR
PDF
DSLR
Zoom Lens
21. A contract in which a model consents to the use of his or her images by the photographer or a third party. Sometimes referred to simply as a 'release.'
Model Release
Graininess
PDF
Noise
22. Film speed or sensitivity is designated by a single - almost universally-accepted common system developed by the International Organization for Standardization which uses the initials 'ISO' before the film-speed number or digital camera's sensitivity
Lossy
CMYK
ISO
Painting with Light
23. If you're hand holding your camera - your shutter speed should not be slower than the reciprocal of your effective focal length (but not lower than 1/50th of a second) in order to avoid 'camera shake -' i.e. the blur that results from any slight move
Reciprocal Rule
Rembrandt Lighting
Ambient Light
UV Filter
24. Exchangeable Image File Format. Data produced by a digital camera that becomes attached to each image made by the camera - including make & model of camera - date & time - image format (e.g. jpeg - tiff - etc.)and dimensions - color & exposure modes
Megapixel
Megabyte
EXIF
Painting with Light
25. Existing light surrounding a subject; the light that is illuminating a scene without any additional light supplied by the photographer. This is also called 'available light'.
Bokeh
Ambient Light
f-stop
Macro Lens
26. An image of a single color in differing shades. A black and white or sepia-toned image is a monochrome. Another monochromatic image is the cyanotype - or blue-green image made popular in blueprints.
Bulb 'B' setting
Bokeh
Resampling
Monochrome
27. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Low Key
Complimentary Color
RGB
Noise
28. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
UV Filter
Low Key
Golden Hour
Megabyte
29. A million bytes - abbreviated as MB - Mb and sometimes Mbyte. Technically and more precisely - it refers to 1 -048 -576 bytes. Digital images are often referred to in terms of their 'size in Mb'.
UV Filter
Megabyte
FPS
Lossless
30. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Reciprocal Rule
TIFF
Noise
Lossy
31. A clear - neutral filter that absorbs ultraviolet radiation - with no effect on visible colors. The skylight filter is a UV filter with a pale rose tinge to it.
Noise
DSLR
UV Filter
Panning
32. An image of a single color in differing shades. A black and white or sepia-toned image is a monochrome. Another monochromatic image is the cyanotype - or blue-green image made popular in blueprints.
Graininess
Monochrome
Panning
TIFF
33. Occurs when an image editing program is used to change an image's size. Increasing an image's size requires the addition of new pixels and decreasing size removes pixels.
Butterfly Lighting
Panning
Resampling
Bulb 'B' setting
34. A lighting technique that is sometimes used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector - or two lights - and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a
Monochrome
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Graininess
Rembrandt Lighting
35. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Gray Card
Golden Hour
High Key
Megabyte
36. Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh is different from sharpness. Sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus. Bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus. Bokeh describes the appearance - or 'feel
Vignetting
Raw Image
Bokeh
Normal Lens
37. A lens with the ability to focus from infinity to extremely closely - allowing it to capture images of tiny objects in frame-filling - larger-than-life sizes.
Lossy
Raw Image
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Macro Lens
38. Or - electronic noise. This is the grainy look you find in a digital image caused by image artifacts. It is usually noticeable in shadow areas - and generally produced when shooting in low light. Noise is almost always unwanted and unattractive.
Lossless
Noise
Megapixel
Macro Lens
39. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
Interpolation
Noise
Lossy
40. Digital single lens reflex camera
Rembrandt Lighting
DSLR
Model Release
EXIF
41. A million bytes - abbreviated as MB - Mb and sometimes Mbyte. Technically and more precisely - it refers to 1 -048 -576 bytes. Digital images are often referred to in terms of their 'size in Mb'.
Painting with Light
Gray Card
Megabyte
f-stop
42. Exchangeable Image File Format. Data produced by a digital camera that becomes attached to each image made by the camera - including make & model of camera - date & time - image format (e.g. jpeg - tiff - etc.)and dimensions - color & exposure modes
EXIF
Gray Card
Gray Card
Megapixel
43. A lens with the ability to focus from infinity to extremely closely - allowing it to capture images of tiny objects in frame-filling - larger-than-life sizes.
Macro Lens
Bokeh
GIF
Reciprocal Rule
44. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Painting with Light
Gray Card
Complimentary Color
Kelvin
45. Technique that involves taking a picture while moving the camera at a relatively slow shutter speed. It is almost always used when tracking a moving object - such as a race car - as it travels across the film plane. When properly carried out - the ob
GIF
Resampling
Gray Card
Panning
46. Commonly abbreviated as 'TTL'. Refers to both exposure metering of the light passing through the lens (Through-the-lens metering - and TTL flash metering) and viewing a scene through the same lens that allows light to reach the sensor or the film (Th
Reciprocal Rule
Through-the-Lens
Megabyte
Kelvin
47. Occurs when saving a digital image file in a format that does not result in a loss of data. A TIFF and PSD documents are examples of lossless image formats
Depth of Field
Lossless
ISO
Raw Image
48. A composition rule that divides the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically - like a tic-tac toe grid placed over the picture on a television set. Almost all of the important information included in every shot is located at one of the four int
Rule of Thirds
Lossy
Through-the-Lens
Noise
49. The range of distance in a scene that appears to be in focus and will be reproduced as being acceptably sharp in an image. Depth of field is controlled by the lens aperture - and extends for a distance in front of and behind the point on which the le
Monochrome
Depth of Field
Lossless
Reciprocal Rule
50. A lighting technique that is sometimes used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector - or two lights - and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a
Rembrandt Lighting
Lens Hood
TIFF
Golden Hour