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Photo 1 Study Guide
1. Name the Composition Techniques
2. What Composition Technique divides your picture plane into thirds with
the subject placed at an intersection?
3. Who was Joseph Niepce?
4. The device on top of your camera that connects your camera to an
outside flash is called a ________________________________
5. Name at least three different selection tools:
6. What American group was the 1st digital camera made for?
7. F32 on an SLR would be what mode on a point-and-shoot?
8. What is a camera obscura?
9. What is a RAW image?
10.

What does PSD stand for?

11.

What are three memory card types used in digital cameras?

12.

What are two ways to organize photos?

13.

What is a bounce flash?

14.

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

15.
What are the tiny dots of color used in digital photography
commonly called?
16.

When would you want to reduce the size of an image?

17.

What are digital images formed from?

18.

What do digital cameras use instead of film?

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

What is fill flash?

21.

What causes red eye?

22.

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

23.
24.

What does ISO stand for?

What are typical ISO numbers?

25.
True or False, ISO numbers double the amount of light they can take
in as they go from 100 to 200.
26.
What are three methods for controlling exposure?
27.

What is the hole through which light enters the camera called?

28.

What controls the light and depth of field?

29.
What mode requires you to set the aperture and shutter speed
yourself?
30.

What is Depth of Field?

31.
Shutter speeds are usually ______________, 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.
34.
If I am printing and I want to measure dots of ink on my paper, what
is that called?
35.

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

36.

What does the crop tool do?

37.

What year was the first digital camera made?

38.
If I need to replace my ink cartridges in my printer, what colors will I
need to buy?
39.

What are the three colors of subpixels?

40.

What does JPEG stand for?

41.

What basic mode uses a fast shutter speed?

42.

What opens to begin an exposure and closes to end it?

43.
What mode allows you to control the shutter speed while the
camera controls everything else?

44.

What are examples of slow shutter speeds numbers?

45.

What is the biggest difference between a film camera and a DSLR?

46.

White in a monitor is formed by what three colors?

47.

What happens when you save your image as a JPEG?

48.

What time of day is best for taking photos?

49.
What kind of balance has the same visual weight on both sides but
has different shapes, sizes, and colors? (is not identical?)
50.
What happens when you press your shutter release button half way
down?
51.
What lens would you want to use when photographing a sports
game from far away?
52.
What keys do you press for a short cut to change your brush size on
Photoshop?
53.
What is the short cut for undoing something or going back a step in
Photoshop? Going back multiple steps?
54.

What do you do when you want to delete a layer?

55.

What is the digital work flow in order?