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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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1. 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
Normal Lens
Lens Hood
Ambient Light
Model Release
2. 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.
Low Key
Bulb 'B' setting
PDF
Macro Lens
3. 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
Painting with Light
Gray Card
ISO
Noise
4. 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.')
Bulb 'B' setting
Low Key
TIFF
Zoom Lens
5. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Graininess
Vignetting
Complimentary Color
Lossless
6. 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'.
Golden Hour
Megabyte
Ambient Light
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
7. 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
Rule of Thirds
Panning
Gray Card
Zoom Lens
8. 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'.
Normal Lens
Megabyte
FPS
Lossless
9. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Lens Hood
FPS
f-stop
EXIF
10. 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
Golden Hour
High Key
Golden Hour
11. 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'
Rule of Thirds
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossless
UV Filter
12. 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
Rule of Thirds
PSD
EXIF
Depth of Field
13. (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
Depth of Field
UV Filter
Reciprocal Rule
GIF
14. 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.
Resampling
Vignetting
Bokeh
Interpolation
15. 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
Zoom Lens
Megapixel
Lossless
Bokeh
16. 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
RGB
Lossless
ISO
Reflector
17. 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
TIFF
Painting with Light
Macro Lens
Rule of Thirds
18. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Rembrandt Lighting
High Key
RGB
DSLR
19. 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
Vignetting
FPS
Kelvin
Depth of Field
20. 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.
RGB
UV Filter
Reciprocal Rule
ISO
21. 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
DSLR
Through-the-Lens
Painting with Light
Bokeh
22. A fall-off in brightness at the edges of an image - slide - or print. Can be caused by poor lens design - using a lens hood not matched to the lens - or attaching too many filters to the front of the lens. It can also be applied after the image is ta
Vignetting
Butterfly Lighting
ISO
Painting with Light
23. Digital single lens reflex camera
Reciprocal Rule
Through-the-Lens
EXIF
DSLR
24. 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
Aperture Priority
White Balance
High Key
25. 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
White Balance
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Aperture Priority
Bulb 'B' setting
26. 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
Macro Lens
Depth of Field
Complimentary Color
Bokeh
27. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Model Release
Normal Lens
ISO
Reflector
28. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Kelvin
Zoom Lens
PDF
CMYK
29. 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.
Monochrome
Low Key
Model Release
Bulb 'B' setting
30. 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
Painting with Light
Depth of Field
RGB
Rule of Thirds
31. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
Reciprocal Rule
Graininess
PDF
32. 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
Aperture Priority
FPS
ISO
Vignetting
33. 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.
Reflector
Noise
Raw Image
TIFF
34. A fall-off in brightness at the edges of an image - slide - or print. Can be caused by poor lens design - using a lens hood not matched to the lens - or attaching too many filters to the front of the lens. It can also be applied after the image is ta
Bokeh
Vignetting
Lens Hood
GIF
35. 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
Lens Hood
Rembrandt Lighting
DSLR
Through-the-Lens
36. 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
ISO
Raw Image
UV Filter
37. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Bokeh
Vignetting
Golden Hour
38. 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
Depth of Field
ISO
White Balance
Monochrome
39. 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
CMYK
PSD
Through-the-Lens
40. 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
FPS
Reflector
Lens Hood
Lossy
41. 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.
Complimentary Color
Interpolation
Resampling
f-stop
42. 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
Ambient Light
PSD
Reflector
43. 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
Through-the-Lens
PDF
Kelvin
Lens Hood
44. 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
Reciprocal Rule
Through-the-Lens
Kelvin
45. 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.
Monochrome
UV Filter
Zoom Lens
Through-the-Lens
46. 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
DSLR
Bokeh
PSD
GIF
47. An image file type created in Adobe PhotoShop. It is uncompressed and contains data on editing that is done to the image. A PSD file is essentially PhotoShop's version of a TIFF file. It lets you save a picture you are working on with its layers - ch
DSLR
PSD
Lossless
Monochrome
48. 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
Painting with Light
Noise
Graininess
Panning
49. 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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50. 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
Panning
EXIF
Butterfly Lighting
Aperture Priority