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Photography Basics
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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. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Zoom Lens
ISO
2. 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.
Noise
Kelvin
Depth of Field
Lens Hood
3. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Monochrome
Rule of Thirds
4. 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'.
Megapixel
Ambient Light
Megabyte
Resampling
5. 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
Lossless
Bokeh
Rembrandt Lighting
f-stop
6. 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.'
Panning
Model Release
Reflector
Zoom Lens
7. 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
Lens Hood
Graininess
Painting with Light
Through-the-Lens
8. 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.
PSD
Megapixel
Noise
Golden Hour
9. 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.')
ISO
White Balance
Depth of Field
Zoom Lens
10. 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.
Butterfly Lighting
f-stop
TIFF
Low Key
11. 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
Model Release
High Key
Model Release
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.
TIFF
DSLR
High Key
Lossy
13. 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
Aperture Priority
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Butterfly Lighting
Through-the-Lens
14. 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
f-stop
Complimentary Color
Through-the-Lens
15. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Reflector
Reciprocal Rule
Megabyte
CMYK
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
Raw Image
TIFF
Reflector
Lossless
17. 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
High Key
Raw Image
Panning
18. 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.
Aperture Priority
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
FPS
Monochrome
19. 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.
RGB
PDF
Resampling
Through-the-Lens
20. Digital single lens reflex camera
Bokeh
Rembrandt Lighting
DSLR
PDF
21. 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
EXIF
Vignetting
White Balance
Reciprocal Rule
22. 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.
High Key
JPEG (also known as JPG)
TIFF
Macro Lens
23. 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
Aperture Priority
TIFF
Panning
24. 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
Painting with Light
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Gray Card
25. 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
f-stop
Kelvin
ISO
GIF
26. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Bokeh
Painting with Light
Complimentary Color
Zoom Lens
27. 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
Graininess
Bokeh
Raw Image
28. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
Rembrandt Lighting
Macro Lens
Kelvin
29. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
PDF
Rule of Thirds
Reciprocal Rule
30. 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
PSD
Bulb 'B' setting
Bokeh
JPEG (also known as JPG)
31. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
f-stop
Lossy
GIF
CMYK
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.'
Kelvin
Model Release
f-stop
Low Key
33. Digital single lens reflex camera
TIFF
PSD
Raw Image
DSLR
34. 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
Megapixel
ISO
FPS
Graininess
35. 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
Vignetting
Aperture Priority
Lens Hood
36. 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
Model Release
Graininess
Lossless
37. 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
Graininess
TIFF
Ambient Light
38. 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
DSLR
PSD
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
39. 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
Depth of Field
Megabyte
Macro Lens
40. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
High Key
Resampling
Rule of Thirds
f-stop
41. 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
PSD
Panning
ISO
Aperture Priority
42. 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'.
Ambient Light
High Key
Painting with Light
Zoom Lens
43. 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)
ISO
Megapixel
Normal Lens
44. 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
Bokeh
Rule of Thirds
Reciprocal Rule
DSLR
45. 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
Zoom Lens
Lossy
DSLR
Raw Image
46. 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
Model Release
Painting with Light
Golden Hour
47. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Kelvin
Panning
Depth of Field
High Key
48. (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
Monochrome
Normal Lens
RGB
GIF
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
Gray Card
Reflector
Macro Lens
White Balance
50. 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
Ambient Light
Normal Lens
Painting with Light
Monochrome