Segment 1 Exam Study Guide

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What does Focal length refer to?

What are the different types of lenses and what is their purpose?
What is film sensitive to?
What does the shutter do?
What is Aperture, what is it measured in, what controls it, how do you read it?
What does the term sensitivity refer to in digital photography?
What are the different file types? Be able to describe them and explain the
differences.
8. What are the differences between a point and shot and an SLR camera?
9. What are the different types of zoon? Be able to describe them.
10.What is a pixel?
11.What did Joseph Nicephon Niepce, William Henry Fox Talbot, George Eastman,
Richard Maddox, Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, and Oskar Barnack do for
photography?
12.What is Bitumen?
13.What is a Daguerreotype and the Calotype and the differences between the
two?
14.What is Autochrome Lumiere?
15.What was the first available digital camera to the public?
16.What is depth of field?
17.What is shutter speed?
18.What are the different camera modes, be able to describe them and know
what they are best used for?
19.What is the rule of thirds?
20.What does keeping it simple mean?
21.What is Active Space?
22.What is framing?
23.How can you use the grid lines on a camera?
24.What does breaking the rules of photography mean?
25.What are the "rules" that you should pay attention to when taking
photographs?
26.Why is light important to photography?
27.What do the terms frontlighting, backlighting, and sidelighting mean and
when would you use each?
28.How does the time of day effect lighting?
29.What are softboxes?
30.What are the common colors of a photography umbrella?
31.What is the iris diaphragm?
32.What is a pinhole camera, when was it invented, and how does it work?
33.How is white balance affected?
34.What is a lens?
35.How does using digital zoom effect an image?
36.How does a digital camera work?
37.When was the term digital photograph first used?
38.When was the first glass negative invented?
39.Did Kodak ever include film processing in the cost of the film?

40.Why was photography limited to professionals in the early days of

photography?
41.Why dont most stock agencies have their photographs online?
42.Where did the technology come from that contributed to digital photography?
43.What is the collodion process?
44.What does f-stops refer to?
45.What is the light meter and how does the photographer use it?
46.How are shutter speed and aperture related?
47.What is the best way to capture a photograph at night?
48.What is shutter priority?
49.What does composition refer to in a photograph?
50.What are the common mistakes people make when taking photographs?
51.What have studies indicated about how our eye naturally travels?
52.How can you make sure your lines are straight? How can you tell when they
are not straight?
53.How do florescent lights change the appearance of colors?