Photography Skills

What is the range of tonal difference between the shadows and lights of an image?

Which ISO setting is least sensitive to light?

Wide angle lenses have more depth of field than a telephoto lens. 

Which shutter speed exposes the sensor to more light?

What is the openings of the lens diaphragm through which light passes?

The action of capturing the same shot using different exposure values to make sure the whole scene is exposed properly?

What is the term generally used instead of film grain, when discussing digital photography?

Cameras have built-in light meters to help you get a proper exposure? 

What affects depth of field in an image?

What is the sharpness of the subject in the image?

How do you avoid or reduce noise in a photograph? 

On a histogram, what term is used when overexposure or underexposure runs off the edge of the graph?

Shooting a lower ISO number will typically work well outdoors in bright sunlight.

Working in natural light, find light that illuminates the face evenly so you have good catch lights in the eyes.

The distance between the nearest and furthest objects that appear in focus is known as:

Noise in a photo is undesirable and doesn't represent the true color and exposure of the scene properly. 

Which lens has variable focal lengths?

With respect to the shutter speed, the numbers indicate either seconds or fractions of a second

Which type of lens is normally recommended for shooting sports?

A telephoto lens compresses image space?

When attempting to stop motion of a moving object, what setting should you increase?

What is the amount of light per unit area reaching a camera’s image sensor? 

What is the measurement of the aperture opening?

Combining shutter speed and aperture (f stop) in the proper combination will give us proper exposure.        

Using this camera feature can help get the colors in your images as accurate as possible,

The shape or format of the image is called

Shooting flash through a shoot thru umbrella will soften the light.

Which F-Stop allows more light to reach the sensor?

Which file format captures the original image data?

_______ is a type of extreme close up photography, usually capturing really small organisms or objects.

A small screen on the back of a digital camera that allows the user to review photos.

________ is an optical phenomenon that makes bright out-of-focus elements appear as aesthetically pleasing soft shapes.

The camera’s sensitivity to light is described as

Which of the following is not a photography or graphics file format?

Different shutter speed and aperture (f stop) pairs that produce equivalent exposure density is known as reciprocity.

What type of shutter is typically located inside the lens?

Aperture, Shutter and ISO working together is what? 

Two controls on the camera that control exposure are the aperture and shutter.

Modern DSLR cameras are patterned after the 35mm SLR film camera?

Which ISO setting is most sensitive to light?      

A tilted, oblique camera angle where the horizon lines are not parallel to the camera frame is called

The _____ the ISO, the more grain/noise is introduced into your image. 

Digital photos are made up of small picture elements called? 

The shutter controls the length of time light is allowed in the camera?

The aperture is in the camera. 

Lenses with longer focal length than normal are usually called Wide‐angle lenses.

The measurement of the color of light is called:

Resolution indicates the amount of detail in a digital photo. It is indicated in PPI, which stands for:

A polarizing filter works at what angle to the sun?

The number of pixels on the sensor is called

The placement or arrangement of subjects in the frame is called

Images that receive less than proper exposure are said to be which of the following.       

Color balance in digital photography can only be set to daylight and tungsten.

Images that receive more than proper exposure are said to be which of the following.       

A _______ is an image created by combining multiple images into a single one

Which lens will give you a wider field of view?

A tripod is an essential piece of equipment for night photography.