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Photography Quiz
Q1: What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?
Writing with light.
Q2: What year was the first photograph made in camera?
1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)
Q3: When did the first photograph of a human appear?
1838 (Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre)
Q4: Who made the first ‘selfie’
Robert Cornelius (1839)
Q5: When did the first colour photograph appear?
1861 (James Clerk Maxwell)
Q6: What do we mean by the word genre?
A style or category of art
Q7: What do we mean by the genre of still-life?
An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world.
Q8: What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?
To affirm photography as an art form
Q9: How do we describe the term documentary photography?
An interpretation of reality as witnessed by the photographer.
Q10: What is exposure in photography?
The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.
Q11: What controls exposure on your camera?
Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.
Q12: What control on our camera records moving objects?
Shutter Speed
Q13: How do we explain depth of field?
How much of your image is in focus.
Q14: What factors affect Depth of Field?
Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.
Q15: What is composition in photography?
The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.
Q16: What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?
It is subjective and in the eye of the beholder.
Q17: What are contextual studies in photography?
To provide historial, cultural and theoterical understanding of images.
Q18: How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?
4.7 billion
Q19: Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?
The Queen (Elizabeth II)
Photography Quiz
Q1: What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?
Writing with light.
Q2: What year was the first photograph made in camera?
1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)
Q3: When did the first photograph of a human appear?
1838 (Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre)
Q4: Who made the first ‘selfie’
Robert Cornelius (1839)
Q5: When did the first colour photograph appear?
1861 (James Clerk Maxwell)
Q6: What do we mean by the word genre?
A style or category of art
Q7: What do we mean by the genre of still-life?
An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world.
Q8: What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?
To affirm photography as an art form
Q9: How do we describe the term documentary photography?
Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events.
Q10: What is exposure in photography?
The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.
Q11: What controls exposure on your camera?
Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.
Q12: What control on our camera records moving objects?
Shutter
Q13: How do we explain depth of field?
How much of your image is in focus.
Q14: What factors affect Depth of Field?
Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.
Q15: What is composition in photography?
The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.
Q16: What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?
Aesthetic qualities refer to the way and artwork looks and feels.
Q17: What are contextual studies in photography?
Consider factors outside of the image, as well as inside the frame.
Q18: How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?
4.7 billion
Q19: Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?
The Queen (Elizabeth II)
Introduction to A-Level photography Quiz
Q1 What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?
ANSWER: Writing with light
Q2 What year was the first photograph made in camera?
ANSWER: 1826
Q3 When did the first photograph of a human appear?
ANSWER: 1838
Q4 Who made the first ‘selfie’
ANSWER: Robert Cornelius
Q5 When did the first colour photograph appear?
ANSWER: 1861
Q6 What do we mean by the word genre?
ANSWER: A style or category of art
Q7 What do we mean by the genre of still-life?
ANSWER: An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world.
Q8 What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?
ANSWER: To affirm photography as an art form
Q9 How do we describe the term documentary photography?
ANSWER: Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events.
Q10 What is exposure in photography?
ANSWER: The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.
Q11 What controls exposure on your camera?
ANSWER: Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.
Q12 What control on our camera records moving objects?
ANSWER: Shutter
Q13 How do we explain depth of field?
ANSWER: How much of your image is in focus.
Q14 What factors affect Depth of Field?
ANSWER: aperture, the focal length and the distance from the subject.
Q15 What is composition in photography?
ANSWER: The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.
Q16 What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?
ANSWER: Aesthetic qualities refer to the way and artwork looks and feels.
Q17 What are contextual studies in photography?
ANSWER: To provide historial, cultural and theoterical understanding of images.
Q18 How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?
ANSWER: 4.7 billion
Q19 Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?
ANSWER: The Queen (Elizabeth II)
Introduction to A-level Photography Quiz
Q1: What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?
Writing with light. ✓
Capturing light.
Painting with light.
Filming light.
Q2: What year was the first photograph made in camera?
1739 (Joseph Wright)
1839 (Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre)
1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce) ✓
1904 (Salvadore Dali)
Q3: When did the first photograph of a human appear?
1874 (Julia Margeret Cameron)
1838 (Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre) ✓
1856 (Henry Mullins)
1939 (Ropert Capa)
Q4: Who made the first ‘selfie’
Kim Kardashian (2015)
Robert Cornelius (1839) ✓
Cindy Sherman (1980)
Claude Cahun (1927)
Q5: When did the first colour photograph appear?
1907 (Lumière brothers)
1961 (Andy Warhol)
1935 (Kodachrome)
1861 (James Clerk Maxwell) ✓
Q6: What do we mean by the word genre?
A study of an artwork
A depiction in art
A style or category of art ✓
A creative process in art
Q7: What do we mean by the genre of still-life?
In image where a person is sitting still and not moving.
An arrangement of flowers.
A picture of food.
An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world. ✓
Q8: What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?
To capture moving objects
To record reality
To affirm photography as an art form ✓
To be scientific
Q9: How do we describe the term documentary photography?
Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events.
Staging images for maximum effect.
Provide in-depth information about a subject over a long period time.
An interpretation of reality as witnessed by the photographer. ✓
Q10: What is exposure in photography?
To expose hidden elements in our society.
To record fast moving objects.
To capture bright light.
The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor. ✓
Q11: What controls exposure on your camera?
Depth of field, composition, distance to subject.
Aperture, focal length, ISO.
Aperture, shutter speed, ISO. ✓
Shutter speed, distance to subject, depth of field.
Q12: What control on our camera records moving objects?
Aperture
White balance
Shutter ✓
ISO
Q13: How do we explain depth of field?
How much of your image is in focus. ✓
To photograph from a high vantage point.
A view across a field.
A deadpan approach to image making.
Q14: What factors affect Depth of Field?
Shutter speed, distance from camera to subject, and sensitivity to light.
Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.
Lens focal length shutter speed and lens aperture. ✓
Sensitivity to light, shutter speed and lens focal length.
Q15: What is composition in photography?
Capturing the quality of light.
A piece of music with different instruments.
Staging a portrait with props.
The arrangement of visual elements within the frame. ✓
Q16: What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?
Concerned with the nature of beauty and taste.
It is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. ✓
Aesthetic qualities refer to the way and artwork looks and feels.
Making a critical judgement based on observation and understanding.
Q17: What are contextual studies in photography?
To provide historial, cultural and theoterical understanding of images.
Consider factors outside of the image, as well as inside the frame.✓
To give an opinion without any research.
To seek a definite answer.
Q18: How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?
1.5 billion
4.7 billion ✓
800 million
6.9 billion
Q19: Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?
Mona Lisa
Lady Gaga
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
The Queen (Elizabeth II) ✓
Studio Lighting
Types of Light
Flash Heads
A flash is simply a brief moment of intense light used to illuminate the subject. Studio flashes (flash heads) are known as dumb lights. This is because they do not have any features to automatically adapt with the camera settings.
These tend to have a very harsh light and thererfore tend to be used with a soft-box (as shown below) in order to diffuse and soften the light’s intensity.
Continuous Lighting
Also known as Tungsten light, it is mostly used for photography. It produces a warmer light than flash lights with a light around 3200-3400 degrees Kelvin. Because of this, you need to adjust the white balance on your camera.
Rembrandt Lighting
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter born in 1606. The style of lighting used in modern photography named after uses shadows to create a small triangle under the eye of the subject. This is shown in his portraits – most significantly his self-portraits (one is shown below)
In modern photography this style of lighting is commonly used and creates a sense of drama and intensity within the image.
Butterfly Lighting
Named as such because of how the shadow falls, butterfly lighting is widely used in fashion photography and shows a butterfly shaped shadow under the nose and sometimes across the cheeks of a persons face.
The light points directly on the subjects face from a high vantage point as to create the desired shadow. The diagram below shows this:
Like I said before, this technique is predominantly used in fashion photography mainly because it is very difficult to do out of the studio with light most likely hitting the subject from all directions and removing most shadows.
Chiaroscuro Lighting
This is an Italian term meaning ‘light-dark’ and that is simply what it is. Images using this type of lighting simply show an obvious relationship between light and dark parts of the face.
It was widely used in monochromatic cinema to create drama within silent films and is still widely used today with colour.
Before the creation of photography however, it was used in paintings and drawings to the same effect.
Back Lighting
This technique creates a silhouetted image of the subject for the camera. The light is positioned behind the subject with a ‘snoot’ connected to it. This controls the beam of light and ensures there is no glare in the final image by keeping the beam of light from completely engulfing the subject.
Experiments
Exposure Bracketing
Exposure Bracketing is a technique where you take 3 or more photographs of the same thing, all at different exposures; the ideals being: one correctly exposed, one under-exposed, and one over-exposed.
When taking photographs, you have to balance the dynamic ranfge of your camera, what settings you are using, and how you camera is metering the scene. Therefore, exposure bracketing become the simpler option to get a correct exposure for your image.
How to take Bracketed Exposures
You can manually take the bracketed exposures by setting up your camera normally. Then after taking your first shot, adjust the shutter speed, aperture or ISO to one stop above and take a second shot. After that, adjust your settings to one stop below the original and take a third. You now have three identical images, each with different exposures that you can later combine when editing.
The images below show the different exposure stops.
Experiments
Mounting Techniques
The final stage of presenting your photographs is by mounting them in a stylistic way. You can either mount them on foam board where the images sit on a piece of foam and actively pop out towards you; or create a window mount where the images have a clear and defined border.
Foam Board
To mount on foam board, you must spray your image with glue so it is able to stick to the board. From there you can cut the foam board down to the size of your image to create a crisp, sharp edge.
Window Mount
To create this effect; you must measure the size of your image and take 0.5cm form each measurement to allow the image to be seen but not fall through the mount. Draw the outline of your image using your final measurements then use a bevel cutter to remove the centre of the mountboard. This creates the final window for your image to be seen through.