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Photography Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Macro Lens
ISO
Megapixel
PDF
2. 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
JPEG (also known as JPG)
Lossless
Monochrome
3. 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.')
Depth of Field
Interpolation
Zoom Lens
Reciprocal Rule
4. 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.'
Reciprocal Rule
Model Release
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
GIF
5. 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
Noise
Reflector
Normal Lens
Aperture Priority
6. 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
TIFF
Ambient Light
f-stop
White Balance
7. A form of image compression when saving the image that discards data from it. Saving a picture as a JPEG uses lossy compression.
Panning
Raw Image
White Balance
Lossy
8. 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
Lossless
FPS
Normal Lens
Rembrandt Lighting
9. 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.
Macro Lens
Butterfly Lighting
Monochrome
Noise
10. 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'.
Lens Hood
Megabyte
Lossless
Monochrome
11. 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
RGB
Graininess
Golden Hour
Macro Lens
12. 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.
Bokeh
UV Filter
Aperture Priority
Lens Hood
13. 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
Raw Image
TIFF
Painting with Light
Noise
14. Digital single lens reflex camera
DSLR
JPEG (also known as JPG)
GIF
Golden Hour
15. 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
PSD
Kelvin
Ambient Light
ISO
16. 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
Depth of Field
GIF
Panning
17. 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
Depth of Field
EXIF
PDF
18. 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
Graininess
Megapixel
Gray Card
19. 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
CMYK
Kelvin
FPS
20. 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
Model Release
EXIF
Reciprocal Rule
Painting with Light
21. 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
Normal Lens
GIF
Lossy
22. Refers to a million pixels - and is used in describing the number of pixels that a digital device's image sensor has.
Bokeh
Graininess
Megapixel
Golden Hour
23. 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
Monochrome
Bokeh
Kelvin
Megabyte
24. 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
PSD
TIFF
Rembrandt Lighting
Interpolation
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
Panning
f-stop
Interpolation
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
Painting with Light
Kelvin
Zoom Lens
Lossy
27. 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.
Graininess
Reciprocal Rule
Interpolation
Normal Lens
28. Describes a mostly dark image - with few highlights.
Bulb 'B' setting
Megapixel
GIF
Low Key
29. 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
Model Release
Aperture Priority
RGB
30. 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.
PDF
Monochrome
Golden Hour
High Key
31. 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
PDF
Raw Image
Graininess
32. An image that is mainly made up of light tones - with relatively few mid-tones or shadows.
High Key
CMYK
Kelvin
Complimentary Color
33. 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'.
Monochrome
PSD
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Ambient Light
34. A lens aperture setting calibrated to an f-number
Depth of Field
Megapixel
f-stop
Monochrome
35. CMYK - An acronym for the ink colors Cyan (process blue) - Magenta (process red) - Yellow and Black used in four-color process printing.
CMYK
Lossy
Noise
Interpolation
36. The primary colors of light (not of the inks used in printing) are red - green and blue - known by the acronym RGB.
RGB
Gray Card
DSLR
EXIF
37. 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
GIF
Megapixel
Panning
Through-the-Lens
38. 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
Normal Lens
Butterfly Lighting
39. Any device used to reflect light onto a subject.
Megapixel
Lossy
Reciprocal Rule
Reflector
40. 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
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Rembrandt Lighting
UV Filter
41. 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
Bulb 'B' setting
Hyperfocal Point/Distance
Raw Image
Rule of Thirds
42. 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)
Interpolation
Lens Hood
Rembrandt Lighting
43. (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
PDF
Kelvin
Depth of Field
44. 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.
DSLR
UV Filter
Graininess
Lens Hood
45. 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 -
Ambient Light
EXIF
Aperture Priority
FPS
46. 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
Vignetting
High Key
Lens Hood
Aperture Priority
47. 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
Butterfly Lighting
Bulb 'B' setting
Lossless
GIF
48. 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'.
White Balance
Ambient Light
Bulb 'B' setting
Noise
49. 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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50. A complementary color is one of a pair of primary or secondary colors that are in opposition to each other on a color wheel.
Low Key
Complimentary Color
Megapixel
JPEG (also known as JPG)