📷 Photography Basics Quiz

1. From which two Greek words is the term "Photography" derived?

• A. Phos (fire) and Graphe (art)
• B. Phos (light) and Graphe (drawing)
• C. Photo (image) and Graphy (writing)
• D. Lumen (light) and Graph (record)

2. Who is credited with coining the term "Photography"?

• A. Louis Daguerre
• B. Nicéphore Niépce
• C. Sir John Herschel
• D. Henry Fox Talbot

3. Who took the world's first photograph in 1826 using a process called Heliography?

• A. Louis Daguerre
• B. Robert Cornelius
• C. George Eastman
• D. Nicéphore Niépce

4. What was the Camera Obscura, used as early as the 1400s?

• A. A chemical process for fixing images onto metal plates
• B. A device that projected light through a hole to create upside-down images
• C. A portable handheld camera with interchangeable lenses
• D. A method of creating prints using silver nitrate and sunlight

5. Louis Daguerre's photographic process in 1839 recorded images onto which material?

• A. Glass plates coated with silver bromide
• B. Paper negatives coated with silver chloride
• C. Silver-plated copper sheets
• D. Cellulose film coated with gelatin

6. What is the Exposure Triangle in photography?

• A. The three composition techniques: Rule of Thirds, leading lines, and framing
• B. The three camera body types: DSLR, mirrorless, and compact
• C. The relationship between Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO that determines image brightness
• D. The three lighting setups: key light, fill light, and backlight

7. In photography, what does Aperture control?

• A. The duration of light entering the sensor
• B. The sensor's sensitivity to light
• C. The quantity of light entering the lens
• D. The white balance of the image

8. Which aperture f-stop allows the MOST light into the camera?

• A. f/22
• B. f/16
• C. f/8
• D. f/2.8

9. What is the side effect of using a very fast shutter speed?

• A. Increased image noise
• B. Shallow depth of field
• C. Frozen / sharp motion
• D. Overexposed highlights

10. What does a high ISO setting cause in a photograph?

• A. Increased depth of field
• B. Motion blur
• C. Digital noise
• D. Vignetting around the edges

11. What is the Rule of Thirds in photographic composition?

• A. Dividing the frame into thirds and placing the subject at an intersection point
• B. Using three different light sources for every portrait shot
• C. Limiting exposure adjustments to three stops on the histogram
• D. Applying three separate filters during post-processing

12. Steve Sasson invented the first digital camera in 1975. What medium did it use to record images?

• A. A floppy disk
• B. An SD memory card
• C. A cassette tape
• D. An internal hard drive

13. What is a pixel?

• A. A unit of print resolution measured in dots per inch
• B. The smallest unit of a digital image — a tiny square of a single colour
• C. A mathematical path used to define vector shapes
• D. A colour channel in the CMYK model

14. What does PPI stand for, and what does it measure?

• A. Print Per Image — the number of prints from one file
• B. Pixels Per Inch — the pixel density of a digital image or display
• C. Points Per Inch — the resolution of a printed document
• D. Pixels Per Image — the total pixel count of a photograph

15. What is the standard screen resolution for web and monitor display?

• A. 300 PPI
• B. 150 DPI
• C. 72 PPI
• D. 600 DPI

16. What minimum DPI is required for professional-quality print output?

• A. 72 DPI
• B. 150 DPI
• C. 300 DPI
• D. 600 DPI

17. What is a raster image?

• A. An image built from mathematical paths and points that can scale infinitely
• B. An image made up of a grid of pixels, each with a specific colour and position
• C. An image stored in a device-independent colour space
• D. An image that uses only black and white with no grey tones

18. Which of the following file formats is a RASTER format?

• A. SVG
• B. AI
• C. EPS
• D. TIFF

19. What is the key advantage of a vector image over a raster image?

• A. Vector images support more colours than raster images
• B. Vector images can be scaled to any size with no loss of quality
• C. Vector images have smaller file sizes when used for photographs
• D. Vector images load faster in web browsers than all raster formats

20. What is pixelation?

• A. The process of increasing an image's resolution for print
• B. Image distortion caused by pixels becoming visible blocks when a raster image is enlarged beyond its original size
• C. A technique for reducing file size in JPEG compression
• D. The conversion of a vector image into a raster format

21. What is the RGB colour mode used for?

• A. Commercial printing, brochures, and magazines
• B. Black and white photography and print preparation
• C. Screens, monitors, cameras, web, and anything that emits light
• D. Professional colour correction and device-independent workflows

22. In the CMYK colour model, what does the "K" stand for?

• A. Kelvin (colour temperature)
• B. Kolor (alternate spelling for colour)
• C. Key (black ink used for depth and detail)
• D. Kerning (spacing between printed elements)

23. What type of colour model is CMYK?

• A. Additive — colours combine to form white
• B. Subtractive — inks absorb (subtract) light
• C. Luminous — channels emit their own light
• D. Indexed — colours are selected from a fixed palette

24. What is the standard paper size for A4 in the ISO series?

• A. 297 × 420 mm
• B. 148 × 210 mm
• C. 210 × 297 mm
• D. 420 × 594 mm

25. Which colour mode has the widest colour gamut and is device-independent, making it ideal for colour correction in Photoshop?

• A. RGB
• B. CMYK
• C. Grayscale
• D. LAB Color