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Photography Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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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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
EXIF
JPEG (also known as JPG)
PDF
Aperture Priority
3. 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
Gray Card
UV Filter
Model Release
4. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Rembrandt Lighting
UV Filter
Interpolation
CMYK
5. Digital single lens reflex camera
Gray Card
Complimentary Color
DSLR
UV Filter
6. 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
CMYK
Golden Hour
ISO
Normal Lens
7. 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
Noise
Macro Lens
Interpolation
Panning
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
Butterfly Lighting
Bokeh
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Macro Lens
9. 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
Depth of Field
Depth of Field
Butterfly Lighting
10. (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
Kelvin
Complimentary Color
GIF
CMYK
11. 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.')
DSLR
Zoom Lens
Bulb 'B' setting
Low Key
12. 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
Lens Hood
Lossless
DSLR
13. 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
Butterfly Lighting
PDF
Painting with Light
Rule of Thirds
14. 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
Model Release
PSD
Aperture Priority
Lossless
15. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
f-stop
Lossy
Noise
Gray Card
16. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Panning
Aperture Priority
White Balance
17. 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'
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Depth of Field
Interpolation
Bokeh
18. 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
White Balance
FPS
Lens Hood
Ambient Light
19. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
TIFF
High Key
20. 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
Rule of Thirds
Resampling
Kelvin
Painting with Light
21. 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
FPS
White Balance
GIF
Vignetting
22. 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
Lossy
Reflector
UV Filter
Raw Image
23. 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
Macro Lens
Graininess
Bulb 'B' setting
24. 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
Vignetting
Depth of Field
PDF
Lens Hood
25. 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
PSD
Megabyte
Aperture Priority
PDF
26. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Monochrome
PSD
Kelvin
27. 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
ISO
Normal Lens
GIF
28. 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.
Golden Hour
Interpolation
PDF
Resampling
29. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
Ambient Light
UV Filter
Vignetting
30. 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
ISO
Low Key
Reciprocal Rule
Low Key
31. 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
Raw Image
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Painting with Light
Graininess
32. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
CMYK
High Key
Reciprocal Rule
Normal Lens
33. 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.
Aperture Priority
Macro Lens
Monochrome
Resampling
34. 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.
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossy
Graininess
Noise
35. 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.
Rule of Thirds
Butterfly Lighting
PDF
Resampling
36. 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.
Megabyte
Noise
Macro Lens
RGB
37. 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
Depth of Field
White Balance
Rule of Thirds
38. 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
TIFF
Depth of Field
39. 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
Kelvin
Complimentary Color
Aperture Priority
Ambient Light
40. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
PDF
Aperture Priority
RGB
Graininess
41. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
PDF
Interpolation
Reflector
Lossless
42. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Through-the-Lens
Golden Hour
High Key
Bulb 'B' setting
43. 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
Panning
Through-the-Lens
EXIF
Low Key
44. 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
Through-the-Lens
Raw Image
Rembrandt Lighting
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
45. 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
Raw Image
Panning
DSLR
Golden Hour
46. 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
DSLR
CMYK
Painting with Light
Noise
47. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Low Key
Resampling
Rembrandt Lighting
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
Golden Hour
Reciprocal Rule
UV Filter
49. 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
Vignetting
RGB
Painting with Light
50. 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
Model Release
Rembrandt Lighting
Rule of Thirds
TIFF