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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. 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
RGB
DSLR
Vignetting
Depth of Field
2. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Macro Lens
f-stop
Interpolation
Interpolation
3. 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
Resampling
UV Filter
Panning
f-stop
4. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Complimentary Color
Vignetting
DSLR
5. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Normal Lens
White Balance
6. 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.
EXIF
TIFF
Butterfly Lighting
Gray Card
7. 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
Megapixel
Raw Image
High Key
8. 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
ISO
Aperture Priority
Zoom Lens
Vignetting
9. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
Kelvin
FPS
Graininess
10. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Megapixel
Ambient Light
FPS
Gray Card
11. 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
EXIF
Megabyte
Complimentary Color
12. 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
TIFF
EXIF
Golden Hour
Macro Lens
13. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Raw Image
DSLR
Rule of Thirds
14. 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
Ambient Light
Rule of Thirds
CMYK
15. 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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16. 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.
Megapixel
Painting with Light
PSD
Macro Lens
17. 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
Gray Card
Lens Hood
Vignetting
18. 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
Lossless
ISO
UV Filter
Megabyte
19. 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
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Monochrome
GIF
Kelvin
20. 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
Golden Hour
TIFF
Low Key
21. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Low Key
Bulb 'B' setting
Raw Image
PSD
22. 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
Zoom Lens
TIFF
Model Release
23. 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.
Interpolation
JPEG (also known as JPG)
UV Filter
Gray Card
24. 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
Graininess
Raw Image
Through-the-Lens
Kelvin
25. 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.
Rembrandt Lighting
FPS
Resampling
Reflector
26. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Rule of Thirds
Reflector
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Normal Lens
27. 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
Through-the-Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
Noise
28. 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
Depth of Field
Lossless
Vignetting
Rembrandt Lighting
29. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
Through-the-Lens
Resampling
Raw Image
High Key
30. 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
Golden Hour
UV Filter
Depth of Field
Lens Hood
31. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
Gray Card
RGB
Through-the-Lens
Ambient Light
32. 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
Painting with Light
PSD
Vignetting
Rembrandt Lighting
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
Golden Hour
Megabyte
Interpolation
Reflector
34. 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.
Monochrome
TIFF
Panning
Ambient Light
35. 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
Megabyte
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
PDF
Macro Lens
36. 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
GIF
UV Filter
37. 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.
Monochrome
Butterfly Lighting
Vignetting
JPEG (also known as JPG)
38. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Low Key
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Lossy
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.
Complimentary Color
Interpolation
Megapixel
Zoom Lens
40. 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
Resampling
Complimentary Color
Rule of Thirds
41. 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
Zoom Lens
Aperture Priority
Interpolation
Raw Image
42. 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 -
FPS
Kelvin
Golden Hour
Megapixel
43. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
PSD
f-stop
FPS
Butterfly Lighting
44. 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
Reflector
Depth of Field
Low Key
Butterfly Lighting
45. 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
Through-the-Lens
Lossy
Zoom Lens
ISO
46. 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
UV Filter
Monochrome
Painting with Light
Gray Card
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.')
Lossless
PSD
Zoom Lens
Rule of Thirds
48. 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
Rule of Thirds
UV Filter
Through-the-Lens
49. 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
High Key
Rembrandt Lighting
Vignetting
PDF
50. 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
Interpolation
Macro Lens
PSD