Photo II Exam Terms

Question 1

Continuous tone

Answer 1

describes an image with a smooth gradation of tones from black through bray to white.

Question 2

Daguerrotype

Answer 2

1839, Nicephore Niepce, silver + mercury vapor

Question 3

Dense

Answer 3

very dark, as in the film due to overexposure

Question 4

Density

Answer 4

The amount of silver present in a negative, producing light stopping ability of light areas in a print.

Question 5

Exposure index

Answer 5

a film speed rating similar to an ISO rating, abbreviated EI

Question 6

Illuminance

Answer 6

The strength of light falling on a given area.

Question 7

Lamphouse

Answer 7

part of enlarger which contains the light source

Question 8

Latitude

Answer 8

amount by which a negative (or sensor in the case of digital) may be over or under exposed without much loss of image quality.

Question 9

Pull

Answer 9

To expose your film at a lower ISO then compensate by overdeveloping the film to increase the quality of the image.

Question 10

Reticulation

Answer 10

cracking or distorting of the emulsion during processing

Question 11

Sabattier effect

Answer 11

A partial reversal of tones that occurs when film or paper is re-exposed to light during development. Commonly called solarization.

Question 12

Silver Halides

Answer 12

The light sensitive part of common photographic emulsions; the compounds silver chloride, silver bromide and silver iodide.

Question 13

Abberation

Answer 13

an optical defect in a lens causing it to form an image that is not sharp or that is distorted.

Question 14

AE

Answer 14

Automatic exposure

Question 15

AF

Answer 15

Automatic Focus

Question 16

Angle of View

Answer 16

The area seen by a lens or viewfinder or read by a light meter.

Question 17

Barrel distortion

Answer 17

a lens aberration or defect that cause straight lines to bow outward, away from the center of the images.

Question 18

Bracket

Answer 18

to make several exposures, some greater and some less than the exposure that is calculated to be correct. Bracketing allows for error and permits selection of the best exposure after development.

Question 19

Camera View

Answer 19

angle point of view in which the subject is photographed

Question 20

Cassette

Answer 20

metal or plastic film spool container [This is what contains your film that gets
loaded into the cameras.]

Question 21

Contrast grade

Answer 21

the contrast that a printing paper produces. Systems of grading contrast are not uniform, but in general grades 0 and 1 have low or soft contrast; grades 2 and 3 have normal or medium contrast; grades 4, 5 and 6 have high or hard contrast.

Question 22

Contre-jour

Answer 22

a condition in which the source of light is directly behind the form it illuminates.

Question 23

Depth of field

Answer 23

The area between the nearest and the farthest points from the camera that are acceptably sharp in an image.

Question 24

Filter factor

Answer 24

the number of times exposure must be increased to compensate for light absorbed by a filter

Question 25

Ground glass

Answer 25

a screen at the back or top of a camera on which the image is focused

Question 26

Halation/Chromatic Aberration

Answer 26

og or halo around brilliantly lighted objects.

Question 27

High Key

Answer 27

print having a majority of its tones light gray or white

Question 28

Low Key

Answer 28

print having a majority of its tones dark gray to black

Question 29

Panchromatic

Answer 29

sensitive to all colors

Question 30

Parallax

Answer 30

difference in the fields of view of two lenses aimed parallel to each other

Question 31

Plane of Critical focus

Answer 31

The part of the scene that is most sharply focused.

Question 32

Resolving power

Answer 32

the ability of a lens to separate closely spaced details in an object

Question 33

Telephoto

Answer 33

type of lens that makes a subject appear larger on the film than does a normal lens at the same camera-to-subject distance

Question 34

Zone system

Answer 34

a way to plan negative exposure and development to achieve precise control of the darkness of various area in a print, invented by Ansel Adams.