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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. 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.'
Model Release
Painting with Light
Lossless
Noise
2. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Monochrome
Complimentary Color
Megabyte
Interpolation
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
Megapixel
ISO
Reflector
DSLR
4. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Model Release
RGB
Raw Image
Butterfly Lighting
5. 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 -
High Key
Bokeh
Rule of Thirds
FPS
6. 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
Model Release
EXIF
Rembrandt Lighting
Vignetting
7. 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.
Graininess
Macro Lens
UV Filter
White Balance
8. 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
Ambient Light
PSD
Rembrandt Lighting
Rule of Thirds
9. 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.
Model Release
Resampling
Lens Hood
Low Key
10. 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
Golden Hour
TIFF
High Key
Reflector
11. 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
Gray Card
Lossless
TIFF
12. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Bokeh
FPS
UV Filter
Reflector
13. 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
Raw Image
Lossless
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
14. 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'.
Butterfly Lighting
Noise
Ambient Light
Kelvin
15. 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.
EXIF
Resampling
RGB
GIF
16. 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
Painting with Light
Bokeh
Normal Lens
17. 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
White Balance
Lens Hood
PSD
18. 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.
RGB
Rule of Thirds
Panning
Interpolation
19. 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
Vignetting
EXIF
Resampling
Bokeh
20. 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
Resampling
Gray Card
High Key
21. 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.
Normal Lens
Monochrome
PSD
PSD
22. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
Graininess
CMYK
White Balance
23. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Bulb 'B' setting
Panning
Interpolation
f-stop
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
GIF
White Balance
Raw Image
Interpolation
25. 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'
Rembrandt Lighting
RGB
Vignetting
JPEG (also known as JPG)
26. 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
Vignetting
EXIF
DSLR
Rembrandt Lighting
27. 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.'
PDF
RGB
Model Release
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
28. 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
Vignetting
Lossless
PSD
Zoom Lens
29. 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
Lossy
Gray Card
Macro 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
PDF
Complimentary Color
Painting with Light
Normal Lens
31. 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
Noise
Through-the-Lens
Model Release
Reciprocal Rule
32. 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.
ISO
Lossy
Vignetting
TIFF
33. 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'.
PSD
TIFF
Complimentary Color
Megabyte
34. 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
Depth of Field
Normal Lens
Depth of Field
35. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Noise
CMYK
ISO
Depth of Field
36. 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
Golden Hour
Aperture Priority
EXIF
Lossless
37. 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
Lossless
Rule of Thirds
GIF
38. 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
f-stop
Reciprocal Rule
Kelvin
39. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
GIF
40. 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.
Reciprocal Rule
Monochrome
Interpolation
UV Filter
41. 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
Painting with Light
Kelvin
JPEG (also known as JPG)
42. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Reciprocal Rule
Raw Image
UV Filter
43. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Megapixel
Monochrome
RGB
Raw Image
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.
CMYK
Megapixel
ISO
Interpolation
45. 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
Zoom Lens
Model Release
Lossy
46. 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
Normal Lens
Ambient Light
Complimentary Color
Graininess
47. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
Gray Card
f-stop
Low Key
48. 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
CMYK
Reciprocal Rule
Butterfly Lighting
Bulb 'B' setting
49. 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
Graininess
GIF
Reciprocal Rule
Golden Hour
50. 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
Panning
Rembrandt Lighting
Depth of Field
Ambient Light