Name _____Rachel Manning

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Photo 1 Study Guide
1. Name the Composition Techniques Framing, symmetrical asymmetrical
balance leading lines, bugs eye and bird eye view, close up, emphasis,
merger, rule of thirds, simplicity.
2. What Composition Technique divides your picture plane into thirds with
the subject placed at an intersection? Rule of thirds
3. Who was Joseph Niepce? He invented the first hard copy photograph
4. The device on top of your camera that connects your camera to an
outside flash is called a ___hot shoe____
5. Name at least three different selection tools: crop, lasso, quick selection
6. What American group was the 1st digital camera made for? NASA
7. F32 on an SLR would be what mode on a point-and-shoot? manual
8. What is a camera obscura? Darkened box that projects an upside down
image.
9. What is a RAW image? Processed data from image sensor of either a
digital camera, image sensor or motion scanner
10.

What does PSD stand for? Photoshop document.

11.
What are three memory card types used in digital cameras?
Compact flash, secure digital, smart media.
12.

What are two ways to organize photos? Subject and date

13.
What is a bounce flash? Direct flash elsewhere, up or angle, before
hitting subject.
14.

What is the default format used by almost all digital cameras? SD

15.
What are the tiny dots of color used in digital photography
commonly called? Pixels
16.
When would you want to reduce the size of an image? When posting
it onlilne
17.

What are digital images formed from? Pixels

18.

What do digital cameras use instead of film? electronic sensor

19.
If I wanted to print something large, what is the minimum resolution
I should use? 1600x1200 pixels
20.

What is fill flash? Putting flash in the areas that are dark

21.

What causes red eye? Light bouncing of the retina

22.

What can you use to stabilize your shot for a slow shutter? A tripod

23.
What does ISO stand for? International standards organization
group
24.

What are typical ISO numbers? 72-100

25.
True or False, ISO numbers double the amount of light they can take
in as they go from 100 to 200. False
26.
What are three methods for controlling exposure? Aperture, iso, f
stop
27.
What is the hole through which light enters the camera called?
Shutter
28.

What controls the light and depth of field? aperture

29.
What mode requires you to set the aperture and shutter speed
yourself? Manual mode
30.
What is Depth of Field? How much is in focus from the front middle
and back
31.
Shutter speeds are usually __fractions__, but are displayed as whole
numbers.
32.
What shutter speed blurs the image?
33.
True or False, the night portrait mode uses a flash and a slow
shutter speed. True
34.
If I am printing and I want to measure dots of ink on my paper, what
is that called? PPI
35.

What mode/setting allows you to take close-up photos? Macro mode

36.
What does the crop tool do? Is resizes your image by taking parts of
the image out
37.

What year was the first digital camera made? 1969

38.
If I need to replace my ink cartridges in my printer, what colors will I
need to buy? myck

39.

What are the three colors of subpixels? RGB

40.

What does JPEG stand for? Joint photographic experts group

41.

What basic mode uses a fast shutter speed? Sports mode

42.
What opens to begin an exposure and closes to end it? Shutter
release
43.
What mode allows you to control the shutter speed while the
camera controls everything else? AV or A
44.

What are examples of slow shutter speeds numbers? f/1, F.5

45.
What is the biggest difference between a film camera and a DSLR?
A film prints it onto a small tape, DSLR is digital and saves on a little chip
that you can just convert to your computer.
46.

White in a monitor is formed by what three colors? RGB

47.

What happens when you save your image as a JPEG? It compresses

48.
What time of day is best for taking photos? In the evening like 4pm
or in the morning around 7 ish
49.
What kind of balance has the same visual weight on both sides but
has different shapes, sizes, and colors? (is not identical?) asymmetrical
balance
50.
What happens when you press your shutter release button half way
down? It turns in focus
51.
What lens would you want to use when photographing a sports
game from far away? A telephoto
52.
What keys do you press for a short cut to change your brush size on
Photoshop? Brackets
53.
What is the short cut for undoing something or going back a step in
Photoshop? Going back multiple steps? Control Z (for a single) control alt
z (for multiple)
54.
What do you do when you want to delete a layer? Drag to trash can,
or right click and hit delete.
55.

What is the digital work flow in order? Set up, capture, edit, output.