Miscellaneous
Lens
Exposure Control
Color Balance
Lighting
100

Negatives

What is a transparent photographic images where the tones or values have been reversed?

100

Lens

What is a disc of transparent glass or plastic with one or more curved surfaces, also called an element?

100

A mechanism that opens and closes either the lens or camera body, allowing light to hit the film or imaging sensor.

What is Shutter?

100

Early color transparency process on glass plates using vegetable starch grains dyed red, green, and blue to make up the image.

What is Autochrome?

100
Light which bounces off a rough surface or which is scattered by a translucent medium and which is thus reflected or scattered in different directions.
What is Diffused Light?
200

In Latin: Dark Room, the first camera used as a drawing aid for artists.

What is Camera Obscura?

200

Lens with variable focal lengths that changes from wider views to closer views, making subject appear closer or further away.

What is a Normal Lens?

200

System of rating the emulsion speed of film by International Standards Organization.

What is ISO?

200

The process of removing unrealistic color casts so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in a photo or video.

What is White Balance?

200
Lighting that results in predominantly middle-gray to white tones.
What is High Key?
300

Developed the first movie film in 1891. Motion picture film made from flexible plastic film.

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

A lens with variable focal lengths that changes from wider views to closer views, making the subject appear closer or further away.

What is a Zoom Lens?

300
A measure of the area of an image that is in focus.
What is Depth of Field?
300
Refers to the jagged appearance of diagonal lines, edges of circles, etc. due to the square nature of pixels, the building blocks of digital images.
What is Aliasing?
300
Lighting that results in predominantly gray to middle-black tones with few light areas.
What is Low Key?
400
Invented the permanent photo in 1835 to mid 1870's. Accidental discovery silver on metal plates made light sensitive. If exposed to iodine vapor, then heated in fumes of hot mercury. The photo was then fixed using hot salt solution.
Who is Louis Diaguerre?
400
The lenses physically extend to magnify your subject. A motor controls the lens movement. When you press the switch to "W" or "T," the subject is either magnified or reduced in size.
What is Optical Zoom?
400
An image that was not exposed enough.
What is Underexposed?
400
A characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, and other fields
What is Color Temperature?
400
The key may determine the character of the lighting, but often a strong Back Light for example, sets the Mood.
What is Main / Key Light?
500
Developed the first flexible roll film in 1888. Silver based gelatin coated roll with paper backing to protect from light. Later started using celluloid a flexible plastic film.
Who is George Eastman?
500
The silicon chip inside the digital camera that records the image.
What is Charge Coupled Device? CCD
500
The curse of all digital photographers. Appears in an image as very fine-grained patterns of multi-colored pixels in an area.
What is Noise?
500
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. The familiar colors of the rainbow in the spectrum include all those colors that can be produced by visible light of a single wavelength only, the pure spectral or monochromatic colors.
What is Visual Spectrum?
500
An improvised or specialized reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene.
What is Reflector?
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