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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. 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
Graininess
Golden Hour
Lossless
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
2. 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
UV Filter
White Balance
Normal Lens
Painting with Light
3. 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
Lossless
Painting with Light
ISO
4. 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.
Complimentary Color
Noise
Through-the-Lens
Raw Image
5. 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
Megapixel
Painting with Light
Panning
6. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Raw Image
UV Filter
f-stop
Megapixel
7. 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'.
White Balance
Lens Hood
GIF
Megabyte
8. 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
Macro Lens
Kelvin
Lens Hood
Vignetting
9. 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
Painting with Light
Graininess
RGB
10. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Lossy
Resampling
f-stop
Gray Card
11. 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
Normal Lens
Through-the-Lens
DSLR
GIF
12. 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
Reflector
Megapixel
Vignetting
Complimentary Color
13. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
Bokeh
UV Filter
Painting with Light
14. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
EXIF
Bulb 'B' setting
Monochrome
15. 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
High Key
Rembrandt Lighting
JPEG (also known as JPG)
16. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Megabyte
Interpolation
Lens Hood
17. 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
Macro Lens
Depth of Field
Rule of Thirds
18. 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
Gray Card
Interpolation
Butterfly Lighting
19. 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 -
Raw Image
FPS
f-stop
Kelvin
20. 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
Panning
Bulb 'B' setting
EXIF
Megabyte
21. (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
DSLR
CMYK
GIF
RGB
22. 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
Raw Image
Lens Hood
Normal 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
Panning
f-stop
ISO
Complimentary Color
24. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Macro Lens
Rule of Thirds
PSD
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'
CMYK
Lossy
Megabyte
JPEG (also known as JPG)
26. 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
Interpolation
Lens Hood
Normal Lens
Painting with Light
27. 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'
Noise
Butterfly Lighting
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Reflector
28. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
ISO
Aperture Priority
Model Release
29. 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
Lossy
Normal Lens
Complimentary Color
Megapixel
30. 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
Lens Hood
Gray Card
Low Key
31. 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.'
Gray Card
Model Release
Complimentary Color
Golden Hour
32. 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
EXIF
Megabyte
JPEG (also known as JPG)
PSD
33. 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
White Balance
Gray Card
Rule of Thirds
Lossy
34. 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
Interpolation
Vignetting
EXIF
Bulb 'B' setting
35. 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.
TIFF
White Balance
Monochrome
Noise
36. 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
ISO
Low Key
PSD
High Key
37. 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.
GIF
Butterfly Lighting
Gray Card
Reflector
38. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Interpolation
Golden Hour
Resampling
High Key
39. 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.
40. 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.
GIF
EXIF
Resampling
Monochrome
41. 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.
JPEG (also known as JPG)
PDF
f-stop
Resampling
42. 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
High Key
Ambient Light
PDF
FPS
43. 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
Rule of Thirds
Reflector
f-stop
44. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Aperture Priority
f-stop
RGB
Depth of Field
45. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Painting with Light
f-stop
High Key
Painting with Light
46. 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
Reflector
ISO
PDF
GIF
47. 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
TIFF
DSLR
Rembrandt Lighting
48. 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
Graininess
Golden Hour
Bulb 'B' setting
ISO
49. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
PDF
Aperture Priority
EXIF
CMYK
50. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Kelvin
Low Key
Golden Hour
Lossless