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Photography Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Model Release
White Balance
Low Key
Bokeh
2. 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
PSD
Graininess
Aperture Priority
Complimentary Color
3. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
GIF
Bulb 'B' setting
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
4. 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
Resampling
Bulb 'B' setting
Painting with Light
5. 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
Bokeh
ISO
Rembrandt Lighting
Painting with Light
6. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
FPS
Vignetting
Megabyte
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'.
DSLR
Megabyte
EXIF
GIF
8. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Aperture Priority
Rule of Thirds
Kelvin
Complimentary Color
9. Adding new pixels to a digital image between existing pixels. Interpolation software analyzes the adjacent pixels to create the new ones when enlarging an image file.
FPS
Depth of Field
Interpolation
Rule of Thirds
10. 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.
Model Release
Rembrandt Lighting
Butterfly Lighting
Resampling
11. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Rembrandt Lighting
Reflector
Complimentary Color
Ambient Light
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
Butterfly Lighting
Rule of Thirds
Reflector
Vignetting
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.
High Key
UV Filter
CMYK
GIF
14. 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
Reflector
Resampling
UV Filter
Rule of Thirds
15. 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
White Balance
Golden Hour
Interpolation
Lossless
16. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Lossless
High Key
Reciprocal Rule
CMYK
17. 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
Lossy
Rule of Thirds
Butterfly Lighting
Through-the-Lens
18. 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
Low Key
Raw Image
CMYK
19. 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.
Megapixel
Noise
Interpolation
DSLR
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
Depth of Field
PSD
Aperture Priority
Through-the-Lens
21. 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'.
Depth of Field
Ambient Light
f-stop
White Balance
22. 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
Aperture Priority
Panning
Zoom Lens
CMYK
23. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
Raw Image
UV Filter
CMYK
Low Key
24. 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
FPS
Reflector
Noise
Reciprocal Rule
25. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Zoom Lens
Complimentary Color
Bokeh
Reflector
26. (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
Aperture Priority
GIF
Complimentary Color
JPEG (also known as JPG)
27. (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
Low Key
Vignetting
Graininess
28. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
RGB
Panning
Bulb 'B' setting
29. 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.
RGB
Macro Lens
GIF
JPEG (also known as JPG)
30. 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
CMYK
Kelvin
High Key
Low Key
31. 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
Model Release
UV Filter
FPS
32. 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
Raw Image
Model Release
Zoom Lens
Bokeh
33. 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
RGB
Through-the-Lens
Golden Hour
34. 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
Noise
Depth of Field
Lossless
JPEG (also known as JPG)
35. 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.
Bokeh
FPS
TIFF
Depth of Field
36. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
EXIF
Ambient Light
Normal Lens
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
Graininess
Painting with Light
Depth of Field
Gray Card
38. 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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39. Adding new pixels to a digital image between existing pixels. Interpolation software analyzes the adjacent pixels to create the new ones when enlarging an image file.
Vignetting
Vignetting
Interpolation
ISO
40. 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
Zoom Lens
Gray Card
Raw Image
f-stop
41. 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
Kelvin
TIFF
Rule of Thirds
Through-the-Lens
42. 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
Gray Card
White Balance
Lossless
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
EXIF
Normal Lens
UV Filter
Ambient Light
44. 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
CMYK
Bokeh
PDF
Kelvin
45. 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
Interpolation
Kelvin
Painting with Light
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
46. 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
Panning
Resampling
Reflector
47. 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
Megapixel
Macro Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
48. 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
Low Key
Lossy
ISO
49. 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.
Zoom Lens
Noise
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Megabyte
50. 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
Rule of Thirds
Megapixel
Kelvin