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Photography Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
f-stop
Bokeh
Kelvin
2. 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
CMYK
Megabyte
Rembrandt Lighting
Model Release
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
Raw Image
Vignetting
ISO
Ambient Light
4. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Gray Card
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
High Key
f-stop
5. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
DSLR
PSD
High Key
6. 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
Resampling
DSLR
RGB
Graininess
7. 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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8. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Megapixel
Rembrandt Lighting
Complimentary Color
Vignetting
9. 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
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Butterfly Lighting
Rule of Thirds
Normal Lens
10. 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
Butterfly Lighting
DSLR
Reciprocal Rule
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
Normal Lens
Macro Lens
Kelvin
Complimentary Color
12. 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.
GIF
FPS
Zoom Lens
TIFF
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
PDF
White Balance
TIFF
Macro Lens
14. 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)
GIF
Panning
Kelvin
15. 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
Lossless
Raw Image
Interpolation
16. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Rembrandt Lighting
Zoom Lens
ISO
High Key
17. 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
Graininess
Panning
Lens Hood
PDF
18. 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
Panning
Lossless
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Bulb 'B' setting
19. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Complimentary Color
CMYK
Reflector
f-stop
20. 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.
Rule of Thirds
Zoom Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
Interpolation
21. 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
CMYK
PSD
DSLR
UV Filter
22. 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
Gray Card
Kelvin
GIF
Golden Hour
23. 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
Gray Card
Graininess
Golden Hour
White Balance
24. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
White Balance
Bokeh
Panning
25. 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.')
Resampling
Low Key
Zoom Lens
PSD
26. Digital single lens reflex camera
f-stop
High Key
CMYK
DSLR
27. 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
Graininess
Golden Hour
Depth of Field
Normal Lens
28. 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
DSLR
Vignetting
Bokeh
Through-the-Lens
29. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Panning
CMYK
f-stop
Zoom Lens
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
Megapixel
Noise
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Painting with Light
31. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
Bulb 'B' setting
Vignetting
Butterfly Lighting
32. 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.'
Megapixel
RGB
Vignetting
Model Release
33. 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
Megapixel
Reflector
Monochrome
Lens Hood
34. 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
Resampling
UV Filter
Lens Hood
PDF
35. 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.
Zoom Lens
TIFF
Interpolation
GIF
36. (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
Lossy
Low Key
Complimentary Color
GIF
37. 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.
Bulb 'B' setting
PDF
UV Filter
FPS
38. 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'.
FPS
Interpolation
TIFF
Ambient Light
39. Digital single lens reflex camera
CMYK
Reciprocal Rule
DSLR
Macro Lens
40. 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.'
Monochrome
Depth of Field
Model Release
Depth of Field
41. 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
PSD
EXIF
DSLR
f-stop
42. 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
Aperture Priority
Gray Card
Panning
Aperture Priority
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
Golden Hour
Rule of Thirds
White Balance
Megabyte
44. (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
Raw Image
Zoom Lens
GIF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
45. 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
Rule of Thirds
Gray Card
Reciprocal Rule
46. 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
Megabyte
Normal Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
47. 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.
Through-the-Lens
Noise
Resampling
Low Key
48. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Reflector
Normal Lens
Macro Lens
Lossless
49. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
DSLR
Resampling
Complimentary Color
Megapixel
50. 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
Through-the-Lens
PSD
Graininess
FPS