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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. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
f-stop
CMYK
Macro Lens
Monochrome
2. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
High Key
Lossy
White Balance
Megabyte
3. 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.
Rule of Thirds
TIFF
Golden Hour
Aperture Priority
4. 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
White Balance
Through-the-Lens
Low Key
Aperture Priority
5. 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
Resampling
Kelvin
PDF
Golden Hour
6. 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
Lens Hood
Low Key
EXIF
7. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
Lossless
Graininess
Depth of Field
8. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Bokeh
PSD
9. 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
Complimentary Color
Kelvin
Megapixel
Rembrandt Lighting
10. 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'
Macro Lens
Model Release
Reflector
JPEG (also known as JPG)
11. 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
Vignetting
Ambient Light
White Balance
12. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Reflector
Low Key
Rule of Thirds
Reciprocal Rule
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
Graininess
Vignetting
PDF
14. 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.
ISO
Low Key
Gray Card
Interpolation
15. 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'.
Macro Lens
Megabyte
ISO
Resampling
16. 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.
CMYK
Golden Hour
Monochrome
Rule of Thirds
17. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossless
Graininess
18. 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
Normal Lens
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
EXIF
Depth of Field
Normal Lens
High Key
20. 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
Ambient Light
Panning
GIF
Reciprocal Rule
21. 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
Depth of Field
Megabyte
Vignetting
Lossless
22. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
f-stop
CMYK
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Monochrome
23. 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 -
Megapixel
Panning
FPS
Rule of Thirds
24. 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'
Zoom Lens
Model Release
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Rembrandt Lighting
25. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Depth of Field
Bokeh
PSD
Complimentary Color
26. 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.
Megabyte
Resampling
DSLR
f-stop
27. 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
Panning
Megabyte
TIFF
28. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Depth of Field
Bulb 'B' setting
Lossy
Vignetting
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
Zoom Lens
Resampling
PDF
JPEG (also known as JPG)
30. 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.')
RGB
GIF
Zoom Lens
DSLR
31. 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
Ambient Light
Vignetting
Low Key
Depth of Field
32. 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.
Painting with Light
PSD
Through-the-Lens
UV Filter
33. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Rule of Thirds
High Key
f-stop
Lossy
34. 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
Butterfly Lighting
DSLR
Raw Image
Vignetting
35. 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'.
Graininess
Ambient Light
JPEG (also known as JPG)
CMYK
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
Golden Hour
White Balance
Megapixel
UV Filter
37. 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
Aperture Priority
Bokeh
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Rembrandt Lighting
38. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
Zoom Lens
Depth of Field
Megapixel
39. 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
Panning
Butterfly Lighting
Graininess
PDF
40. 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
Complimentary Color
ISO
Model Release
Low Key
41. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
CMYK
Ambient Light
42. 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
Monochrome
Butterfly Lighting
White Balance
Lens Hood
43. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Reflector
Graininess
FPS
Bokeh
44. 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
Resampling
EXIF
Low Key
Graininess
45. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
GIF
Vignetting
Ambient Light
46. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Bokeh
Lossy
UV Filter
f-stop
47. 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
Graininess
Golden Hour
Aperture Priority
48. 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
RGB
Reciprocal Rule
Gray Card
49. 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
Graininess
Macro Lens
Bokeh
Noise
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
Lens Hood
Monochrome
Model Release
Through-the-Lens