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Issue 378 - Quiz
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26 Mar 2020
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To: Firstname Lastname
Your BPS Membership No:
Hello, Firstname |
Very many thanks to Steve Taylor for the following: |
BPS Annual Photography Course
Q U I Z
A light-hearted round-up of last year’s course |
Hello Folks
I hope you're bearing up under the strain of life under Coronavirus, i.e. self-isolation, social distancing, confinement with family and loved ones and no weekly BPS meetings!
So why not give yourself a few minutes break from catching up on post-processing, hard-drive spring cleaning or whatever else you're doing to while away the hours and try your hand at the BPS Photography Course quiz?
This is the quiz we gave to students on the last evening of the 2019 photography course as a warm-up to the main event, which was Peter McCloskey’s appraisal of student’s images.
It was intended to serve as both revision of some of the topics covered on the course and be educational in itself, whilst at the same time being light-hearted and amusing. So the answers to some question will seem blindingly obvious to photography whizzes like you but others may prove more challenging!
Small teams of students (and tutors) joined forces and score sheets were marked by other teams to reveal a winning student team, though it has to be said that the tutors shamefacedly admitted they hadn’t scored much better!
See how you get on.
Answers next week!
Best wishes and good health,
Steve Taylor |
Which term describes the main thing you want your viewer to see in an image?
- Subject
- Centre of focus
- Focal Point
- All of the above
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Which of these is the widest aperture?
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You are shooting a photo and want to achieve maximum depth of field in the image. Which aperture would you choose?
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We can create the illusion of depth in an image using a number of techniques.
Can you name two of them?
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When shooting in manual mode, which of the following controls exposure?
- Aperture
- Shutter speed
- ISO
- All of the above
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A professional full-frame camera has a greater depth of field than a crop-sensor camera body.
True or false? |
What two variables control exposure?
- Lens and aperture
- Shutter and tripod
- Shutter and lens
- Aperture and shutter
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What was the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction?
(bonus point for getting within 10% of the sale price!)
(bonus point for naming the photographer)
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There are two blue hours a day in photographic terms.
When do they occur?
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In auto mode, to brighten an image and increase exposure, what would you do?
- Widen aperture
- Slow shutter speed
- Increase ISO
- Increase exposure compensati
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Which digital camera file type gives the photographer more control over digital editing and is considered a digital negative?
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What was Albert Einstein doing in one of the most famous photographs of the twentieth century? |
Which lens has the shallowest (least) inherent depth of field
- Wideangle
- Telephoto
- Macro
- Zoom
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When using studio lighting it is useful to know about the Inverse Square Law, which tells us that when we halve the distance between the light source and the subject we have:
- Four times as much light falling on the subject
- Half as much light
- Twice as much light
- Four times less light
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How many black dots can you see at the line intersections?
What does this tell you about the way the human eye works ?
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Where are there known to be twelve discarded
Hasselblad cameras?
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Name four commonly used formats you can crop your images to.
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Which of these terms is used to describe studio lighting gear?
- Sock
- Snoot
- Honeycomb
- Brolly
- Flag
- All the above
- None of the above
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We can create the illusion of motion in an image using a number of techniques.
Can you list three of them?
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Image processing techniques such as sharpening, tone and colour control in software such as Photoshop or Lightroom are just changing the colour or brightness of pixels.
True or false?
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A camera’s histogram has 255 tones ranging from black to white along its horizontal (x) axis.
What is measured along the vertical (y) axis?
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What went wrong?
The photos from your last shoot are unintentionally blurry
Give three causes of blurred images
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With the cost of camera equipment, perhaps exotic travel or maybe lighting and models, photography can be an expensive business but what was the most expensive to produce photograph ever taken?
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What is the best camera to use?
ANSWERS NEXT WEEK |
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Ed
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Hopefully I haven't missed anyone from this list, but if I have, please let me know and I'll put it right next week.
Salon acceptances: BPS photographers are now achieving large numbers of salon acceptances and constraints on time and space mean we can't include them all. So please only advise of awards or other milestones.
Contrary to popular belief, I do not possess psychic powers and need you to tell me if you've had successes. If you want to blow your own trumpet (or someone else's), then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include details in a future issue.
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If you have anything to sell, or you're looking for something to buy, just let me know and I'll include it here. Please bear in mind, we only advertise items for BPS members.
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Would all members please note that before you plan your shoot and book your model, you should check whether the studio/clubroom will be free. This can be done easily and at any time by viewing the Clubroom Bookings calendar in the Members' Area of the BPS Website. Bookings can be made by contacting Mike Bigger at bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Log in details to the Members' Area are at the end of this newsletter.
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Please don't forget that if you change your address (home or email), or gain additional photographic distinctions, it would be appreciated if you could let the Membership Secretary know so that she can keep her records up to date, this will also ensure that you continue to receive your newsletters - please email all changes to membership@bristolphoto.org.uk
The distinctions we have on record are those shown at the top of this newsletter. If they are wrong, please visit the Members' Area of the BPS website where you can register any changes using the on-line form provided; this form can also be used for change of address, email etc.
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For those of you who aren't sure what MPAGB, EFIAP/s and many more such seemingly random collections of letters mean, just click here to download the list.
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If you have anything you think other members would like to know about, such as special events, exhibitions, photographic hints and tricks, etc. please let me know at bpsnewsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
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