Technical Midterm Exam

Midterm Take Home Exam

Name  ____________________________________      Date  _____________                                                       


1.  Your camera tells you that 1/125 @ F11 is the correct exposure.  List two other exposures that would allow you to bracket around this reading.    ________________,  _________________

2.  Fill in the intermittent apertures.
    F2  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___ ___ F22

3.  Fill in the intermittent shutter speeds.
   1sec  ____ ____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 1/1000 sec

4.  F22 would produce a shallower depth of field than F8.  T   F

5.  While photographing a scene, the camera shows that 1/250 @ F16 will produce a correct exposure.
    Give two equivalent exposures for this reading.  _____________, _____________

6.  Which shutter speed would best stop a car moving across the frame.  A) 1/1000 sec  B) 1/30 sec              C) 1/4000 sec  D)  1/60 sec  

7.  Dodging is the global adjustment that will darken areas of your image.  T or F

8.An ISO rating of 400 is more sensitive to light than 800.  T  F

9.  What is the difference between global and local adjustments?  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

10.  How many mega pixels you need to make a 8x12 print at 360 ppi?  ____________

11.  Name two tools in Photoshop you can use to adjust the density (brightness) of your image.  ____________,  ____________

12.  Name three tools you can use in Photoshop to change the color of your image.  _______________, _______________, ______________

13.  What is the best file type to use when emailing or posting pictures to the web?  __________

14.  What is the advantage of using adjustment layers?  _______________________________________________

15.  What color workspace is best used when editing photographs?  ___________________________________

16.  ________________ is a graphic representation of your image and can also be used to judge for correct exposure.

17.  Name two tools in Camera Raw you can use to change the density of your image.  _______________,  _______________


18. Name two tools in Camera Raw you can use to change the color of your image.  _______________,  ________________

19.  What is exposing to the right and what is its advantage.


20.  Draw a basic histogram for an underexposed image.



21.  Draw a basic histogram for an overexposed image.



22.  Draw a basic histogram for a correctly exposed image.



23.  What is the best file to use as a layered working file in Photoshop?  _________________

24.  Name two advantages of having a larger digital sensor.  ___________________, _________________________

25.  Pixels of unrelated color and/or brightness to surrounding pixels are known as __________________.

26.  Name two factors that would cause noise.  ______________________, _________________________

27.  In camera raw what is the difference between the Vibrance controls and the Saturation controls.

28.  Images made of pixels are known as vector based images.  T or F

29.  Name two tools you can use to retouch a photograph.  ______________________, _____________________

30.  Name three tools you can use to make a selection.  _________________, ____________________, ________________

31.  Name two tools in Camera Raw can you use to adjust a particular area of an image.  _______________, _____________

32.  When editing an image what does the term “clipping” mean.  i.e. highlight clipping.

              __________________________________________________________________________________


33.  Name two advantages to shooting with a raw file.  __________________________________,

       __________________________________

34.  What software is best used to get the images from your camera onto your computer?  _________________________

35.  What is the best way to erase areas in an image?  _________________________________

36.  Name two controls in Camera Raw used to recover image detail.  __________________, ______________________



Bonus  +1 each


1.What year was the first digital camera produced?  _________________

2.What is the temperature scale used to measure color temperature in photography?  __________________

3.What president is on the $100 bill?  ____________________