Photography Answer Key

What is the photo mechanical method?

The process of printing a photo with chemicals.

What is the photo mechanical method?

The process of printing with photosensitive material.

First person to record images on a surface.

Joseph Niepce

In the beginning of photography, what type of photography was predominantly used?

landscape

Sir John Hershel's experiments led him to discover "Cyanotype" photographs.

False

What was the first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacturer in
1839?
The instant Polaroid camera

The photo-chemical process involves exposed film which must go through what?
A developer bath (mix of compounds), then the stop bath and the fixer bath to stop the
developer and remove the silver halide

This person invented the first true digital camera in 1976. Kodak didn't like it and passed
on the idea
Steve Sasson

What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)

Kodak Brownie

Anna Atkins did what with Cyanotypes

Used them to record flora and fauna images

Charles Talbot invented the Wet Plate Collodion photography process?

The correct answer is: True

What was the first attempt at photography?

Camera Obscura

He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film.
George Eastman

8 hours

The Daguerreotype is...?

 A negative that allows many copies

Why was Louis Daguerre important to Joseph Nicephore Niepce's work?

He figured out how to keep the images from fading away.

Does the first photograph create by Joseph Nicephone Niepce still exist
True

Photography comes from 2 words meaning?

light/drawing

Fredrick Scott Archer invented Tintype photographic process?

True

In what year was color photography invented?

1861

Only one photographic image could be made from Daguerre's process.

True

Photography in Greek is?

Light Drawing

What consists of a lens which focuses light from the scene and a body which holds the
image capture mechanism?
A camera

Cyanotypes were very cheap and consequently used by student photographers while
learning and testing.
True

Why was Louis Daguerre important to Joseph Nicephore Niepce's work?

He figured out how to keep the images from fading away.

Daguerre gave his rights to his photographic process to....?

France
What was the first attempt at photography?
Camera Obscura

"View from the window at Le gras" was the earliest photograph captured directly from
nature. What year did this take place?
1825

Nicephone Niepce used asphalt within his photography process

True

SLR stands for what?

Single Lens Reflex

Which of these projects an inverted image through a small hole on the opposite side
from that opening.
Camera Obscura

In the 11th century, this Arabic Muslim Scientist built the first model pinhole camera,
also known as "camera obscura"
Alhazen

Cyanoprints weren't used much until the end of the nineteenth century. Then they were
used for architects.....?
blueprint plans

This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the
opposite wall
Camera Obscura

This person invented the first true digital camera in 1976. Kodak didn't like it and passed
on the idea
Steve Sasson

Who developed the first camera using digital electronics to capture and store images?
Steven Sasson, an engineer from Kodak, in 1975

The earliest recorded theoretical understanding of the pinhole camera

5th Century BC
What was the first instant camera? (year: 1947)
Polaroid

Talbot & Daguerre were friends.

False

What three colors are produced in the three-color process, a method which is the
foundation of virtually all practical color processes and which form the illusion of various
intermediate wavelengths of light?
Cyan, magenta, yellow

In the 15th century, this artist used the pinhole camera to study perspective and wrote
the first detailed description of its form and function. Hint: he shares a name with the
blue ninja turtle
Leonardo da Vinci

Johann Heinrich Schulze's first experiments involved silver and chalk. What happened to
the chalk when mixed with silver and placed in light?
turned a dark color where light touched it

Which uses relief plates with unprinted sections removed from the plate so the ink is
printed on the raised areas.
Photoengraving

Cyanotypes are unique in they do not________________?

use silver in their process of creation

When images are projected into a camera obscura, an eye, or a camera the image inside
is?
upside down

What was the first instant camera? (year: 1947)

Polaroid

How long was the exposure time for the first ever photograph?
8 Hours

First person to record images on a surface.

Joseph Niepce

____________________ embraced the Daguerreotype photographs like no other country.

French

Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre became partners in their photographic
experimentation
True

What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)

Kodak Brownie

"View from the window at Le gras" was the earliest photograph captured directly from
nature. What year did this take place?
1826

Who created the earliest known surviving heliographic engraving printed from a metal
plate in 1825?
Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Photography was primarily use for what type of photograph?

Landscape

How long was the exposure time for the first ever photograph?
8 Hours

Who created the earliest known surviving heliographic engraving printed from a metal
plate in 1825?
Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Digital photo albums are created and shared worldwide

2004

Photography comes from 2 words meaning?

light/drawing

This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the
opposite wall
Camera Obscura

He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film.
George Eastman
Which method exposes gelatin to light which hardens it and makes it resistant to water
and allows it to pick up oily inks?
Photolithography

With your ISO settings, you can adjust:

How sensitive the camera is to light

To have certain things appear in focus and others to be blurred has to do with a measurement of
a?
Depth of field

It is harder to achieve a shallow depth of field if you are zoomed in.

False

All photography is based on light.

True

The main tool of a photographer.

Light

I wanted the shallowest depth of field. I would us which of these aperture?

f/1.4

A low aperture would create?

Smaller depth of field

Photography comes from 2 words meaning?

light/drawing

If I want to let in the LEAST amount of light. I would use which f-stop?
f/16

Using the camera in M (Manual Mode) means you can control what?
Shutter speed, aperture and ISO

How can you control the exposure if a photo?

Shutter speed, Aperture and ISO

The ______ is inside the lens and grows and shrinks to let in more or less light.
Aperture

The amount of light or darkness on a photograph is known as the:

Shutter Speed

The _______ setting refer to the size of the gap that lets light get through the lens- similar to an
eye’s pupil.
Aperture

The three settings that make up the exposure triangle must stay ___ to give a good quality
picture.
In the composition

Canon 40D 135mm ISO 200 f-5.6 1/400. The 1/400 refers to what?
Shutter speed

A sports photographer that deals with motion is concerned with the settings, which determines
the amount of time the light is coming into the camera.
Shutter

With a shutter speed of 1/4000, the camera lets in a large amount of light.
False

Perfect exposure is a result of the right mixture of:

ISO + aperture + shutter Speed

First person to record images on a surface.

Joseph Niepce

The balancing of light within a photograph is known as the:

The exposure

What three colors are produced in the three-color process, a method which is the foundation of
virtually all practical color processes and which form the illusion of various intermediate
wavelengths of light?
Cyan, magenta, yellow

The number 8 on the shutter settings means?

It will be open for 8 seconds

The high ISO number is ______ sensitive to light

More

What is aperture measured in?

F Numbers

Which aperture would have the widest opening?

F 2.8

What is the unit of measurement for light in Photography?

Shutter speed

a. Aperture
b. ISO
c. Whit balance
d. Shutter speed
The correct answer is: ISO

What is shutter speed measured in?

Seconds

In a gig setting, the ISO should be set......?

Between 400 and 6000, depending on the camera

The amount of light passing through a lens is defined by the:

Shutter speed

The shutter speed numbers range from single digits all the way up to 4, 000 or more. This
number is a measurement of the fraction of a _____ that the shutter speed is open.
Seconds

Light is ______ in photography.

The most important factor

1/2500 is a _____ shutter speed.

Fast

My maximum aperture is completely dependent on the type of ____ that I have.

Lens

Which is a larger aperture

1.4

Too much light creates an over bright image with lots of white, this is called what?
Over exposed