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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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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. 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
Monochrome
ISO
Lens Hood
Reciprocal Rule
2. (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
Through-the-Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
Bulb 'B' setting
3. Digital single lens reflex camera
Lossless
Raw Image
Golden Hour
DSLR
4. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
EXIF
CMYK
Bokeh
5. 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
Lossy
ISO
Panning
Golden Hour
6. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
Megapixel
Vignetting
Normal Lens
7. 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
High Key
White Balance
Normal Lens
Megapixel
8. 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
Graininess
Golden Hour
Resampling
9. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Megabyte
UV Filter
Rule of Thirds
Low Key
10. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Lossless
Painting with Light
Reflector
Raw Image
11. 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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12. 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'.
Megabyte
Complimentary Color
Golden Hour
Bokeh
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.
UV Filter
FPS
High Key
DSLR
14. 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 -
CMYK
Gray Card
Bulb 'B' setting
FPS
15. 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
Raw Image
TIFF
16. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
White Balance
Lossy
Golden Hour
17. 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
Through-the-Lens
Complimentary Color
CMYK
18. 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
Lossy
Ambient Light
Golden Hour
19. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Graininess
Complimentary Color
White Balance
CMYK
20. 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
Noise
Zoom Lens
Gray Card
EXIF
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
Painting with Light
Bokeh
Zoom Lens
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
22. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
f-stop
Golden Hour
Interpolation
Panning
23. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Reflector
PDF
Normal Lens
RGB
24. 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
Raw Image
Lossless
Kelvin
Panning
25. 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 -
Panning
Monochrome
FPS
Butterfly Lighting
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.
EXIF
Resampling
Through-the-Lens
Low Key
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
Aperture Priority
RGB
JPEG (also known as JPG)
28. 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
Kelvin
Through-the-Lens
FPS
29. 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
Graininess
EXIF
Lens Hood
30. Digital single lens reflex camera
CMYK
Golden Hour
Reflector
DSLR
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.
Butterfly Lighting
Painting with Light
Golden Hour
GIF
32. 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
Bokeh
Lossless
Raw Image
Normal Lens
33. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Macro Lens
Megapixel
GIF
PSD
34. 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
Complimentary Color
Monochrome
Ambient Light
35. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
PSD
Noise
Painting with Light
36. 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
Rembrandt Lighting
Vignetting
PDF
FPS
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.')
PDF
Megabyte
PDF
Zoom Lens
38. 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
Vignetting
EXIF
Megabyte
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
Megapixel
Aperture Priority
Rembrandt Lighting
ISO
40. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
Panning
PSD
Lossless
41. 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.')
Rule of Thirds
Depth of Field
Interpolation
Zoom Lens
42. 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
Bokeh
High Key
FPS
43. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Noise
Megapixel
Zoom Lens
Low Key
44. 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.
Resampling
Rembrandt Lighting
Depth of Field
Ambient Light
45. 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
Resampling
Megapixel
Painting with Light
Interpolation
46. 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
Monochrome
Lossless
Vignetting
Panning
47. 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'.
TIFF
Interpolation
Megabyte
Bulb 'B' setting
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.
Rembrandt Lighting
Through-the-Lens
Rule of Thirds
Macro Lens
49. 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
TIFF
Macro Lens
Megabyte
Kelvin
50. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
Lens Hood
White Balance
Model Release