Midterm

Question 1

Main F-Stops

Answer 1

2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32

Question 2

Exposure Triangle

Answer 2

ISO
Aperture
Shutter Speed

Question 3

What shutter should portraits not be below

Answer 3

1/90

Question 4

What shutter speed should sports be shot at, at a minimum

Answer 4

1/1000

Question 5

Normal Shutter Equivalencies

Answer 5

1
1/2
1/4
1/8
1/15
1/30
1/60
1/125
1/250
1/500
1/1250

Question 6

What does ISO measure?

Answer 6

Measures sensitivity (how sensitive the sensor is to light)

Question 7

What color does tungsten emit?

Answer 7

An orange color (its 2500-300K)

Question 8

Why should you shoot in RAW

Answer 8

It allows for non-destructive editing and there is more file information

Question 9

Why do images get resized to 1200 pixels on the longest side?

Answer 9

its professional practice

Question 10

What framing technique is unique to photography

Answer 10

frame with a frame

Question 11

Who’s images use high contrast between black and white? They also have the photo of grass in snow

Answer 11

Harry Callahan

Question 12

What are the 3 important qualities of light?

Answer 12

Brightness
Color
Contrast

Question 13

Can you have blended light scenarios?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

What photographer often took photos of houses at night with a light on in the house. Lowkey looked like stalkerish photos

Answer 14

Hiido

Question 15

How can you diffuse light

Answer 15

with something like a white sheet

Question 16

What is the best way to write an artist statement

Answer 16

in 1st person

Question 17

What genre would use a smaller aperture

Answer 17

Landscape

Question 18

What does aperture refer to

Answer 18

the size of the opening for light on a camera. A small aperture would be 32 F-stop and large aperture would be 2.8 F-Stop

Question 19

How does workflow go?

Answer 19

Bridge
Camera Raw
Photoshop

Question 20

Why do we use Jpgs

Answer 20

They are best for web use

Question 21

Who was the photographer who had a book called “House Hunting”

Answer 21

Hiido

Question 22

Whose genre was still life photography that involved dead bodies/carcasses?

Answer 22

Peter Witkin

Question 23

Who took the controversial image of the woman peeing in the barn?

Answer 23

Emmit Gowin

Question 24

What photographer used soft colors and did self-portraits of her weight loss?

Answer 24

Jen Davis

Question 25

Types of Photography (will just have to pick out one that doesn’t fit on the test)

Answer 25

Fine Art
Documentary
Post Documentary
Art for Commerce
Landscape
Portraiture
Self-Portraiture
Photo Journalism
Still Life
Street Photography
Constructed Imagery
Form Based Photography

Question 26

What are the types of Photographs

Answer 26

Descriptive
Explanatory
Interpretive
Ethically Evaluative
Aesthetically Evaluative
Theoretical