How to train your dragon
Lightroom 101
Once upon a time...
Quality Control
Are you afraid of the dark?
100
This is the module in Lightroom that we use to select and sort image files.
What is the Library module?
100
This Frenchman made the world's first permanent image by coating a sheet of metal and exposing it using a camera obscura.
Who is Niepce.
100
This is the type of image file that you should be shooting with your camera, in order to allow for the most advanced editing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
What is RAW?
100
When photographing a white sandy beach on a bright, cloudy day and on automatic settings, the light meter on your camera will be tricked in producing a photo that can be described in this way.
What is underexposed (or too dark)?
200
This is what the acronym DSLR stands for.
What is Digital Single Reflex Lens?
200
This is the module in Lightroom that we use to edit individual images in depth.
What is the Develop module?
200
This French scientist and painter is widely credited with having invented photography in the Nineteenth century.
Who is Daguerre?
200
This is the image file type that is best for e-mailing photos or putting photos on the web.
What is JPEG.
200
If your images are all coming out underexposed, these are two ways you can adjust your exposure to a more correct state.
What are increasing the ISO, opening the aperture, or slowing down/lowering the shutter speed?
300
This is the focal length of a standard variable focal length (or zoom) lens.
What is (anywhere between 35 mm and 100 mm).
300
These are two of the editing tools that you can use to manipulate photographs in the Develop module of Lightroom.
What are adjustment brush, crop tool, red-eye correction, clone/heal brush, etc.
300
The world's first permanent image, which depicts a scene of rooftops out of a window, was created in this year?
What is 1826?
300
This is the image file type that is best to use for printing photos.
What is TIFF.
300
These are two concepts or ideas that we can use when interpreting a photograph in a critique.
What are color, line, form, composition, content, mood, theme, contrast, angle, exposure, etc. Now, give a concrete example of the two that you chose...
400
Focal length is defined as the distance between the focal plane (the area that is in focus in the frame) and this part on the camera.
What is the optical center of the lens (usually measured in mm)?
400
This is why the histogram of an image in Lightroom is more accurate than the histogram of the same photo on your camera's screen.
What is ... because the histogram on your camera's screen is just representing a jpg preview, while the histogram in Lightroom is reflective of all of the RAW file data of the image.
400
The Frenchman who created the first permanent image initially called his process by this name, which means sun-writing.
What is heliography?
400
This is the format you should export your photos in if you want to edit them further in photoshop.
What is PSD or photoshop document?
400
When using a tripod at night, along with a shutter release to hold the shutter open, your shutter speed should be set to this setting.
What is BULB (or B)?
500
Viktoria is photographing with a lens that has a focal length of 50 mm (and is not a zoom lens). Switching her lens to this focal length will allow her to have a wider angle of view.
What is ... anything less than 50 mm?
500
These are two things that can be adjusted in the Basic panel of the Develop module of Lightroom.
What are the shadows/blacks/whites/highlights, exposure, saturation, vibrance, clarity, etc.
500
These are two of the early photographic processes used by early photographers to create permanent images.
What are...cyanotypes, tintypes, calotypes, radiographs, heliographs, etc.
500
When importing photos into lightroom, we convert them to this file type, which is a more standardized and universal type of RAW file.
What is DNG (digital negative).
500
If you are using your camera without a tripod, you should not use a shutter speed slower than this setting.
What is 1/60 s or 1/30 s?
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