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Photography Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Reciprocal Rule
Resampling
Lossy
RGB
2. 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
Depth of Field
Rembrandt Lighting
Golden Hour
Ambient Light
3. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Lens Hood
High Key
EXIF
CMYK
4. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Model Release
Lossy
DSLR
Gray Card
5. 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
PDF
TIFF
PSD
White Balance
6. 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.
CMYK
Macro Lens
Monochrome
Vignetting
7. Frames per second (fps) refers to the number of pictures that a camera is able to take in a second. A point-and-shoot camera typically shoots one or two pictures per second. Higher-end single lens reflex (SLR) cameras have much greater performance -
Depth of Field
JPEG (also known as JPG)
FPS
Bulb 'B' setting
8. 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.
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9. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
Gray Card
Reciprocal Rule
Painting with Light
10. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Depth of Field
Reflector
High Key
White Balance
11. The visible light spectrum is scientifically described in terms of color temperature - and is measured in degrees Kelvin (K). The range for Kelvin on a pro digital camera is approximately 2000-10000.. These K settings are the scientific numbers behin
Aperture Priority
Kelvin
DSLR
Depth of Field
12. 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
Bokeh
Rule of Thirds
TIFF
Aperture Priority
13. 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
High Key
Bokeh
Butterfly Lighting
PSD
14. 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'.
Megabyte
Gray Card
Reciprocal Rule
Painting with Light
15. Digital single lens reflex camera
Reciprocal Rule
Panning
High Key
DSLR
16. Tagged Image File Format - A standard digital image format for bitmapped graphics in an uncompressed state. The image files are much larger than compressed files - but can be opened in all image-processing programs.
TIFF
Lens Hood
Kelvin
PSD
17. The visible light spectrum is scientifically described in terms of color temperature - and is measured in degrees Kelvin (K). The range for Kelvin on a pro digital camera is approximately 2000-10000.. These K settings are the scientific numbers behin
RGB
Bokeh
Lossless
Kelvin
18. A lens in which focal length is variable. Elements inside a zoom lens shift their positions - enabling the lens to change its focal length - in effect - providing one lens that has many focal lengths. (Also called a 'Variable focus lens.')
Monochrome
Rembrandt Lighting
Zoom Lens
Kelvin
19. 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.
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Graininess
Zoom Lens
Butterfly Lighting
20. 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.
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21. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Lossless
Macro Lens
Lossy
Golden Hour
22. 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
Lossless
Low Key
Painting with Light
23. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
UV Filter
Reflector
Noise
f-stop
24. 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.
Rembrandt Lighting
UV Filter
Depth of Field
Macro Lens
25. 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
Noise
Zoom Lens
Graininess
Raw Image
26. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Reciprocal Rule
UV Filter
Kelvin
27. (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
Bokeh
Depth of Field
Macro Lens
28. Graininess occurs when clumps of individual grains are large and irregularly spaced out in the negative. They are visible to the naked eye in the finished print - particularly enlargements - as sand-like particles. When this occurs - the picture appe
Model Release
Macro Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Graininess
29. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Painting with Light
Low Key
Lossless
High Key
30. A lens in which focal length is variable. Elements inside a zoom lens shift their positions - enabling the lens to change its focal length - in effect - providing one lens that has many focal lengths. (Also called a 'Variable focus lens.')
Zoom Lens
Golden Hour
Panning
Gray Card
31. Also known as the 'Kodak neutral test card -' a gray card is an 8' X 10' (20 cm by 25.5 cm) card - about 1/8' thick - that is uniformly gray on one side. The gray side reflects precisely 18% of the white light that strikes it (corresponding to the ca
EXIF
Gray Card
TIFF
Model Release
32. 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
Rule of Thirds
Low Key
Raw Image
33. An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group that describes an image file format standard in which the size of the file is reduced by compressing it. JPEG - with its 16.7 million colors - is well suited to compressing photographic images. A 'JPEG'
RGB
Macro Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
RGB
34. 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.
FPS
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Lens Hood
Butterfly Lighting
35. (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
Normal Lens
Reflector
ISO
GIF
36. Also known as the 'Kodak neutral test card -' a gray card is an 8' X 10' (20 cm by 25.5 cm) card - about 1/8' thick - that is uniformly gray on one side. The gray side reflects precisely 18% of the white light that strikes it (corresponding to the ca
Gray Card
Complimentary Color
Zoom Lens
Graininess
37. 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
High Key
RGB
Painting with Light
Low Key
38. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Reflector
Golden Hour
Lens Hood
Vignetting
39. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Model Release
Zoom Lens
Butterfly Lighting
RGB
40. When the lens is focused on infinity - the nearest point to the camera that is considered acceptably sharp is the Hyperfocal point. By focusing on the hyperfocal point - everything beyond it to infinity remains in acceptable focus - and objects halfw
Noise
Megapixel
Bokeh
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
41. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Lossy
RGB
Butterfly Lighting
Complimentary Color
42. When the lens is focused on infinity - the nearest point to the camera that is considered acceptably sharp is the Hyperfocal point. By focusing on the hyperfocal point - everything beyond it to infinity remains in acceptable focus - and objects halfw
Model Release
UV Filter
ISO
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
43. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
PSD
Resampling
Raw Image
Complimentary Color
44. 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.
Interpolation
ISO
Megabyte
Aperture Priority
45. 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
Through-the-Lens
Rule of Thirds
PDF
Golden Hour
46. 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
CMYK
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Aperture Priority
Painting with Light
47. 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
Bokeh
EXIF
Painting with Light
48. 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.
ISO
Ambient Light
Lossy
UV Filter
49. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Lens Hood
Reciprocal Rule
Raw Image
RGB
50. An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group that describes an image file format standard in which the size of the file is reduced by compressing it. JPEG - with its 16.7 million colors - is well suited to compressing photographic images. A 'JPEG'
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Ambient Light
RGB
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