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Beginning Photography
Exposure Study Guide
1. Define Exposure.
The use of aperture and shutter speed to control light reaching film or paper. Exposure is different for different kinds of film and paper.
2. What controls exposure?
Aperture and shutter speed
3. Name 2 equivalent exposures for f8 @ 1/250.
f22 f16 f11 f8 f5.6 f4
1/30 1/60 1/125 1/250 1/500 1/1000
4. What is bracketing?
Shooting three different exposures of the same scene to ensure a proper exposure.
5. Bracket for an original exposure setting of f5.6 @ 1/500.
f8 @ 1/500 and f4 @ 1/500
or
f5.6 @1/1000 and f5.6 @ 1/250
6. How do you bracket when you have an f-stop of 2.8 or 22?
By changing the shutter speed
7. How do you bracket when you have a shutter speed of 1/1000?
By changing the aperture
8. What is the slowest shutter speed that is recommended for handholding your camera? 1/60
9. What should you do if you have an exposure of f5.6 @ 1/30 and you do not have a tripod?
Find an equivalent exposure with
a higher shutter speed
10. What is the B shutter speed used for?
It allows you to keep the shutter open as long as you press the shutter release button, and is best used with a shutter release cable to take photos in extremely low light or showing motion (such as the blur of car lights at night)
11. When using a telephoto (zoom) lens, how can you reduce movement and blur in your photograph?
By using a tripod
12. What film speed is best for action photography?
400 or higher
13. What film speed gives the best detail?
100 in black and white
14. If you switch from and aperture of f5.6 to f8, what happens to the amount of light coming into your camera?
The amount of light is reduced by half
15. If you switch from a shutter speed of 1/125 to 1/60, what happens to the light hitting your film?
The amount of time that the
light reaches the film is doubled
16. What aperture setting creates a shallow depth of field?
f2.8 (larger openings create less depth of field)
17. What is grain?
The silver particles that are visible on the surface of a print
18. Describe overexposure and underexposure. What do you see in the negative? What do you see in the photograph?
Overexposure allows too much light onto the film and creates a dark negative and a light print.
Underexposure allows too little light onto the film and creates a light negative and a dark print.
19. Which of the following is a lesser exposure (allows less light onto the film)? (circle one) f4 @ 1/250 F2.8 @ 1/250
20. Which of the following is a higher exposure (allows more light onto the film)? (circle one) f8 @ 1/500 f8 @ 1/125
21. Name 2 common Black & White film speeds.TANNER
100 and 400
22. High shutter speeds let more/less light onto the film. (circle one)
23. If you don’t let enough light into your camera, the film will be too light/too dark. (circle one)
24. Film that is too dark will produce a dark/light print. (circle one)
25. Film that is too light is called overexposed/underexposed. (circle one)
26. High/low f-stop numbers keep more of your photo in focus. (circle one)
High f-stops, such as f16 and f22
27. High/low f-stop numbers allow more light into your film. (circle one)
Because the opening is larger
28. What film speed would you use for outside photos on a bright day?
100
29. What film speed would you use for action photography late in the afternoon on a cloudy day? 400
30. Give an example exposure setting for a close-up photo of flowers with shallow depth of field. f2.8 @ 1/500
Because you want the background to be out of focus, and the picture to be taken quickly to avoid movement of the flowers from the wind.
31. What mechanism in your lens controls the amount of light coming into your camera? Aperture (the diaphragm)
32. What mechanism in your camera controls the amount of time that light reaches your film? Shutter
33. Why doesn’t a Single Lens Reflex Camera have parallax error?
Because what you see in the viewfinder is the same as what is coming through the lens.
34. Describe the path of light in a single lens reflex camera.
Light travels through the lens, hits the angled mirror and is reflected up into the prism, it reflects inside the prism and out the viewfinder.