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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. 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.
Raw Image
Aperture Priority
FPS
Resampling
2. 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
Megapixel
Butterfly Lighting
EXIF
Graininess
3. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Interpolation
TIFF
FPS
Megapixel
4. 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
Zoom Lens
Butterfly Lighting
Painting with Light
Reciprocal Rule
5. 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
Bokeh
Depth of Field
Gray Card
Zoom Lens
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
Low Key
Rule of Thirds
PSD
Vignetting
7. 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.
Reflector
Lens Hood
FPS
TIFF
8. 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
CMYK
Through-the-Lens
JPEG (also known as JPG)
9. 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 -
Golden Hour
FPS
Reciprocal Rule
JPEG (also known as JPG)
10. 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
Interpolation
Reciprocal Rule
Lossless
Model Release
11. 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
CMYK
EXIF
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
RGB
12. 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
UV Filter
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Model Release
13. 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.
Megapixel
PSD
White Balance
UV Filter
14. 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
Model Release
Megabyte
White Balance
Through-the-Lens
15. 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
Depth of Field
Through-the-Lens
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
16. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
ISO
Painting with Light
Normal Lens
17. (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
FPS
Gray Card
GIF
18. 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
Raw Image
PDF
CMYK
Rembrandt Lighting
19. 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.')
GIF
Rule of Thirds
Zoom Lens
EXIF
20. 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
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Interpolation
Graininess
Painting with Light
21. 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
TIFF
Ambient Light
Bokeh
Panning
22. 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
Lossless
Interpolation
Through-the-Lens
Megabyte
23. 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
FPS
High Key
PSD
f-stop
24. 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
Rule of Thirds
Vignetting
ISO
White Balance
25. 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
Reciprocal Rule
Lossless
RGB
26. 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
Rule of Thirds
UV Filter
Lens Hood
JPEG (also known as JPG)
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'
f-stop
EXIF
Lens Hood
JPEG (also known as JPG)
28. 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
Raw Image
Graininess
Normal Lens
29. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
Bokeh
Macro Lens
Lossless
30. 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
Megapixel
PSD
Zoom Lens
31. 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
Rule of Thirds
Interpolation
Kelvin
Aperture Priority
32. 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
ISO
Panning
Rembrandt Lighting
Model Release
33. 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
Normal Lens
White Balance
Macro Lens
Macro Lens
34. 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
Lossy
Reflector
Gray Card
UV Filter
35. (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
Model Release
Bulb 'B' setting
Model Release
GIF
36. 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
Painting with Light
Megapixel
Rule of Thirds
Golden Hour
37. 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
Lens Hood
Depth of Field
Monochrome
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
38. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Panning
Lossy
Through-the-Lens
Megabyte
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.
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40. 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.
Resampling
FPS
Panning
Monochrome
41. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Panning
Aperture Priority
Zoom Lens
Complimentary Color
42. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Reciprocal Rule
GIF
43. 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.
Aperture Priority
Resampling
Lens Hood
Gray Card
44. 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
RGB
Raw Image
Panning
Lossless
45. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Raw Image
Low Key
f-stop
Monochrome
46. 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
GIF
Butterfly Lighting
Kelvin
Reciprocal Rule
47. 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 -
Gray Card
Through-the-Lens
FPS
Complimentary Color
48. 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.
Through-the-Lens
Macro Lens
Graininess
Butterfly Lighting
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
Reciprocal Rule
High Key
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Noise
50. 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
Gray Card
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossy