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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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1. 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
Golden Hour
Raw Image
Kelvin
Lossless
2. 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
Rule of Thirds
Graininess
JPEG (also known as JPG)
3. 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
Golden Hour
Megabyte
CMYK
Graininess
4. 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
Megabyte
Interpolation
Raw Image
f-stop
5. 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
Painting with Light
Lossless
White Balance
Lossy
6. 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.
EXIF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Monochrome
7. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Through-the-Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
FPS
8. 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
Kelvin
Lossless
Ambient Light
Lossy
9. 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
Monochrome
Butterfly Lighting
Rule of Thirds
Through-the-Lens
10. 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
f-stop
Low Key
Lossless
Normal Lens
11. 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
f-stop
f-stop
Megapixel
12. 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
Kelvin
f-stop
Ambient Light
13. 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
Painting with Light
TIFF
RGB
Aperture Priority
14. 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
Depth of Field
Lens Hood
Interpolation
15. 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
Monochrome
Depth of Field
Low Key
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
16. 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
Reciprocal Rule
Raw Image
High Key
Complimentary Color
17. 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
ISO
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lens Hood
Gray Card
18. 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
Lens Hood
EXIF
Ambient Light
Gray Card
19. 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
Reflector
PSD
White Balance
Interpolation
20. 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
Rule of Thirds
Lossless
PSD
Through-the-Lens
21. 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.
Gray Card
Reflector
Macro Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
22. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Painting with Light
DSLR
f-stop
Kelvin
23. 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'
EXIF
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossy
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
24. 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
Raw Image
GIF
Lossless
25. 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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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
Painting with Light
Megapixel
Resampling
27. 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
Megabyte
JPEG (also known as JPG)
f-stop
28. 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.')
TIFF
Megabyte
Zoom Lens
PSD
29. (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
Bokeh
Zoom Lens
GIF
Reflector
30. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
Noise
Megabyte
Lens Hood
31. 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.
Macro Lens
Butterfly Lighting
Megabyte
Lossy
32. 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
Depth of Field
Bulb 'B' setting
Resampling
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
33. 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
CMYK
Zoom Lens
Vignetting
UV Filter
34. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
Noise
PDF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
35. 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.
Bulb 'B' setting
Macro Lens
EXIF
Gray Card
36. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
PDF
TIFF
Gray Card
37. 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
Resampling
CMYK
Megabyte
38. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Rule of Thirds
RGB
UV Filter
Golden Hour
39. 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
Rule of Thirds
JPEG (also known as JPG)
UV Filter
40. 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
GIF
Bulb 'B' setting
Depth of Field
UV Filter
41. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
ISO
Through-the-Lens
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
Depth of Field
Panning
High Key
Through-the-Lens
43. 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
Low Key
Monochrome
Kelvin
Panning
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
GIF
Aperture Priority
Golden Hour
Vignetting
45. 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
Kelvin
Reflector
DSLR
Lens Hood
46. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Low Key
Megapixel
ISO
JPEG (also known as JPG)
47. 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.')
Depth of Field
Resampling
Painting with Light
Zoom Lens
48. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Lossy
Butterfly Lighting
Zoom Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
49. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Interpolation
Noise
Lossless
Reflector
50. 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
PSD
Rembrandt Lighting
Megapixel