Parts of the Camera
Show me how to properly hold a camera
Did you get it right?
The speed at which light is let into the camera
Shutter speed
Is a shutter speed of 1/500 considered fast or slow?
Fast
The first digital camera was invented in: 1966, 1975, 1988
1975
Name two camera brands
Examples: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, Fujifilm, GoPro, Leica, Polaroid, Kodak, Ricoh, Hasselalad
The optical glass used to gather and focus light rays to form an image (don’t overthink this question)
Lens!
What is the name for these three items: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO
exposure triangle
If you change from F/3.5 to F/22, what are you changing?
by decreasing the APERTURE
This type of photography does not represent the subject in a literal way (hint: this term is also used in other art forms)
abstract
What was the room used to develop photographs
a darkroom
This setting allows you to take multiple pictures in sequence (also on iPhones)
Continuous or burst mode
The camera’s sensitivity to light
ISO
The numbers for this are usually: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
ISO
Where was the world’s first photograph taken? Choices: Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Gothenburg, Vienna, Nantes, Copenhagen.
Edinburgh
How much did the world’s most expensive photograph sell for? $10 million, $550, 000, $899,000, $4 million
$4.3 million (Rhein II by Andreas Gursky)
This button allows you to override the camera and correct the exposure
Exposure compensation
When this opening of adjusted, it changes the amount of light that comes into the camera
Aperture
Shutter speed is measured in what unit of measurement?
Seconds
If the subject is in focus and the background behind the subject is blurred, does the composition have a low or high depth of field?
Low depth of field
The first photography paper was made out of…
potassium nitrate, zinc, glass, asphalt
asphalt (was brushed on copper or glass plates)
The opening in the camera that allows the photographer to see what is being photographed
View Finder
What are the orbs created when lights are out of focus in an image?
This function allows you to fully control the operation of a camera
Manual Mode
When was the first color photo taken? Choices: 1785, 1887, 1834, 1863
1861 (Taken by Thomas Sutton)
Why didn't people smile in old photos?
Fun fact: The subjects didn’t smile because they had to stay still for hours for one photo.