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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. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Golden Hour
UV Filter
f-stop
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
2. 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.'
f-stop
PSD
Model Release
Golden Hour
3. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Rembrandt Lighting
Raw Image
CMYK
Gray Card
4. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Painting with Light
Ambient Light
Bokeh
Megapixel
5. 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
Interpolation
Lens Hood
Megapixel
Normal Lens
6. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
TIFF
Normal Lens
Megabyte
7. (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
EXIF
Normal Lens
Interpolation
8. 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.'
Reciprocal Rule
Zoom Lens
FPS
Model Release
9. 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.
UV Filter
Rembrandt Lighting
ISO
Normal Lens
10. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
Noise
ISO
Gray Card
11. 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
Megabyte
UV Filter
RGB
12. 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
Vignetting
Raw Image
Ambient Light
PDF
13. 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'.
White Balance
Macro Lens
Ambient Light
Kelvin
14. 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
Zoom Lens
Model Release
Resampling
Graininess
15. 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
Graininess
Through-the-Lens
Panning
Reflector
16. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Zoom Lens
Interpolation
Megabyte
Megapixel
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
FPS
Painting with Light
Interpolation
PSD
18. 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
Macro Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
ISO
PDF
19. 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
GIF
Depth of Field
Model Release
Rule of Thirds
20. 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'
Lossy
JPEG (also known as JPG)
DSLR
UV Filter
21. 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.
Golden Hour
Bokeh
Interpolation
Lens Hood
22. 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
Lossless
Resampling
Panning
Kelvin
23. 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
Panning
Bokeh
PSD
Rembrandt Lighting
24. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
f-stop
High Key
Normal Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
25. 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
Bokeh
Lossless
Graininess
Rule of Thirds
26. 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
Kelvin
PSD
TIFF
Model Release
27. 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
Painting with Light
Reciprocal Rule
Depth of Field
Resampling
28. 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.
Golden Hour
DSLR
Ambient Light
Butterfly Lighting
29. 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
Ambient Light
Aperture Priority
Through-the-Lens
Bulb 'B' setting
30. 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
Golden Hour
Reflector
Through-the-Lens
GIF
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
Painting with Light
Reciprocal Rule
Lossless
Vignetting
32. 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
Depth of Field
Lens Hood
Panning
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
33. 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
Interpolation
Kelvin
GIF
Reciprocal Rule
34. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
Rembrandt Lighting
FPS
Depth of Field
35. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
DSLR
Lossy
Raw Image
Complimentary Color
36. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Lossless
Noise
Depth of Field
Reflector
37. 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
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Painting with Light
UV Filter
38. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Complimentary Color
Interpolation
Gray Card
Painting with Light
39. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
Zoom Lens
Complimentary Color
GIF
40. 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
PDF
Model Release
Megabyte
41. 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
DSLR
Rule of Thirds
Bokeh
42. 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
Graininess
Bokeh
PSD
Bokeh
43. 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
High Key
TIFF
Golden Hour
44. 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
Complimentary Color
DSLR
Gray Card
PSD
45. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Gray Card
White Balance
Depth of Field
Lossy
46. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Reflector
RGB
Low Key
Reciprocal Rule
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
Megabyte
Bulb 'B' setting
Depth of Field
Lossless
48. 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
Reflector
Model Release
Kelvin
49. 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
Model Release
Gray Card
Megabyte
ISO
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'
Gray Card
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Bulb 'B' setting
UV Filter