Photography Flashcards

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How do you know when th D70 is in focus?

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Hen the yellow dot in the viewfinder flashes yellow

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What kind of memory card does the C70 use

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CF (Compact Flash)

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How does the D70 tell you which focus point is in focus?

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The brackets that are in focus are solid and the others are hollow

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4 main parts of the d70

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Shutter
Lens
Memory card
Image sensor

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I’d the camera light is on, what is the camera doing

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Still recording the photo onto tr memory card

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Define exposure

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Refers to the amount of light used to take a picture

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2 things that control exposure

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Aperture

Shutter speed

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How is the f stop measures

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The larger the opening of the aperture, the smaller the f stop number

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Which has the larger aperture opening

F 5.6 or F 16

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F 5.6

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Shutter speed is measured in __________ of a second

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Fractions

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Shutter speed effects exposure and…

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Clarity

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A large aperture number has what effect on the depth of field?

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It gives it a larger depth of field( more in focus)

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In portrait mode the aperture is open..

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Very wide

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In landscape mode the depth of field is

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Very long

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What does ISO setting do to the image sensor chip? (CCD)

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The CCD absorbs the light faster or slower and it changes the sensitivity to light

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Which ISO Stetting requires less light ? 200 or 1600?

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1600

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What is the drawback to a high ISO setting?

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It can cause digital noise

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F16 would have a long or short DOF

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Long

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If your lens is at a 300mm focal length you should set your shutter speed over….

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1/300ths seconds

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What file foremat has less noise

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Raw

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A telephoto zoom lens makes things look closer thus has a

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Long focal length

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What advantage does a fixed focal length lens have over a zoom lens

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It will produce shaper images

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The word photography is derived by the Greek words for

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Light and writing

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Leonardo da Vinci used what to help him draw

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Camera obscura

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Explain what the camera obscura was used for
It was used for tracing images from a small hole that produced light in the dark room
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What was mean by proper perspective when using the camera obscura
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What were the two distinct scientific processes that put together that made photography possible?
Optical | Chemical
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Can you produce copies from a daguerreotype
No
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What was the exposure time for the worlds first photograph?
8 hours
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Why did people have to be still for a long time during photographs?
The exposure time was so long
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The calotype was invented by
Henry fox talbot
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2 disadvantages of the daguerreotype
Couldn't copy | Long exposure times
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Who invented the Colodian process
Frederick Scott archer
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The Colodian process reduced exposure time to
A few seconds
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Richard Maddox discovered what process
The dry plate process
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George Eastman founded what famous company and why were his cameras so innovative
He founded Kodak and it was innovative because it was the first point and shoot camera that anybody could use
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How many pictures could the first Kodak take?
100
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List the 10 parts of a slr camera
``` Shutter release button Focus ring Aperture dial Accessory shoe View finder Lens Mode dial Lens release button Manual/autofocus switch Flash ```
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Both camcorders and digital cameras use CCDs to sense light and colour density T or F?
T
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CCD is an acronym for
Charged coupled device
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How many pixels Ina megapixel
1.000.000
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Pixels stand for
Picture element
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Should you apply.digital picture manipulation to your master or archival photos?
No
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What are the three additive colours to the CCD
Red green blue
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Resolution of digital pictures is measured in
Pixels per inch
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What resolution size do you want cropped pictures to be when in the form for printing
4"x6" at 300ppi
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Why do you need to crop all of your pictures before printing them
1. It will cut out some of the picture 2. It can help cut our unnecessary background 3. It could look pixelated
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What is a jpeg
A common compressed image file
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What does USB stand for
Universal Serial Bus
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What image editing software do we use in class
PHOTOSHOP
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name two types I'd removable perminant storage media
Dvdr | Cdr
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Why is white balance important and how does it relate to colour temperature?
Colour temp. Refers to the light source and white bance deals with it. Shite balance removes any unrealistic colour casts
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How many megabytes does a cdr hold
700
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In what city did anel Adams grow up in
Sanfransico
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In what year was ansels first trip to Yosemite?
1916
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What was the make d his first camera?
Brownie
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What style of photography did Adams use a Yosemite?
Pictorial ism
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Pictorialism is characterized by what technique
Soft focus
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What type of photographic paper did ansel stop using
Textured
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What lake did ansel claim to have transcential experience?
Quick silver lake
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Ansel adams chose photography over what other profession?
Concert pianist
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What filter colour did ansel Adams use at the half some?
Red
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What did th red filter do tho the sky in the picture
Made it look darker
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Whatnots meant by previsualixation in his photographic approach
Thinking about how he wanted his lictures to look in the dark room he wanted to make his pictures look like how he felt
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Ansel travelled to NYC to meet what famous artist
Alfred stegletz
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Ansel stated that art is not the duplication of ______
Visual reality
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What is meant by the tonal ranges of grayscale and how did he relate it to the keys of a piano
He piano has 88 keys and you have to know how to play all of them. For a phogograph you have to use all shades of gray on the grayscale
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Why was ansel considered an enviromnentalist
He wanted people to understand the importance of beauty and the world and he wanted to explain something in his photos he was also apart of the Sierra club