Bresson & Perspective

Question 1

Photography is an instantaneous operation.

Answer 1

Henri Carter Bresson

Question 2

What did Bresson have the ability to catch?

Answer 2

The decisive moment

Question 3

What kind of photographer was Bresson

Answer 3

Photojournalism

Question 4

Bresson had the first photographic display at which museum?

Answer 4

Louvre

Question 5

What is Bresson the Founder of?

Answer 5

Magnum

Question 6

“The photograph doesn’t interest me. I want to only capture a minute part of reality”

Answer 6

Bresson

Question 7

“i’m not interested in the subject. once the picture is in the box, i’m not all that interested in what happens next.”

Answer 7

Bresson

Question 8

Name the elements that give the illusion of depth.

Answer 8

Light, geometry, perspective, atmospheric value, optics

Question 9

Name the three perspective aspects in an image

Answer 9

Vanishing point, horizon lines, orthogonal lines

Question 10

Visual rays helping the viewers eye to connect points inside or outside edges of the canvas to the vanishing point.

Answer 10

Orthogonal Lines

Question 11

Horizon line

Answer 11

Theoretical line that represents eye level to the viewer

Question 12

What can an objects relationship with a horizon line show you?

Answer 12

Whether you are looking up, down, or straight at the object.

Question 13

Which lines are not visible indoors

Answer 13

Horizon

Question 14

T or F: An image can only have ONE vanishing point

Answer 14

False. If the vertical lines are not parallel and receding towards the same side then the image will have additional vanishing points

Question 15

How many vanishing points in a one point perspective?

Answer 15

1

Question 16

one point perspective

Answer 16

What you see when you look straight at the side of an object

Question 17

Two point perspective

Answer 17

When you look at or into the corner of an object

Question 18

How many vanishing points in two point perspective?

Answer 18

Two - the two sets of sides are receding in two different directions

Question 19

How The appearance of an objects affected by looking at it through a layer of air

Answer 19

Atmospheric perspective

Question 20

How The appearance of an objects affected by looking at it through a layer of air

Answer 20

Atmospheric perspective

Question 21

When is contrast greatest?

Answer 21

For close objects

Question 22

True or False: colours can change with depth

Answer 22

True

Question 23

T or F: Distant objects have less contrast in them and less to their surroundings

Answer 23

True - e.g. each row of hills receding into the distance has less contrast with the next

Question 24

As objects get farther away what happens to the colours?

Answer 24

The colours dull and eventually turn blue ray.

Question 25

What kind of colours appear closer? Warm or Cool

Answer 25

Warm colours appear closer

Question 26

T or F: Far objects are generally more sharply focused then distant objects

Answer 26

FALSE: Close objects are more sharply focused than distant objects

Question 27

T or F: The mind sees softly focused edges as being farther away than sharp edges

Answer 27

true