Exposure

Question 1

What is the aperture in a camera?

Answer 1

The hole inside the camera lens that lets light in. Acts like an iris.

Question 2

What is the shutter in a camera?

Answer 2

A device that allows light to pass for a determined amount of time to an exposed sensor to capture an image. It is constructed to automatically close after a certain time interval.

Question 3

What is the definition of Exposure?

Answer 3

Exposure is the balance of lighting and settings in the camera.

Question 4

What is an underexposed photo?

Answer 4

A photo that is too dark.

Question 5

What is an overexposed photo?

Answer 5

A photo that is too bright.

Question 6

What is the Exposure Triangle?

Answer 6

The Exposure Triangle is aperture, shutter speed and ISO.

Question 7

What does a wide open aperture produce?

Answer 7

• Shallow depth of field - “bokeh”
• Brighter image
• Good for portraits

Question 8

What does a smaller aperture produce?

Answer 8

• Focus throughout scene
• Darker image
• Good for landscapes

Question 9

What does F/1 mean?

Answer 9

Large aperture, wide open

Question 10

What does F/16 mean?

Answer 10

Smaller aperture, pinhole

Question 11

What does the aperture control?

Answer 11

• Light

* Depth of field

Question 12

What does a faster shutter speed produce?

Answer 12

• Freezing of action
• Darker image
• Good for sports, animals moving

Question 13

What does a slower shutter speed produce?

Answer 13

• Blurring of action
• Brighter image
• Good for waterfalls, night photography

Question 14

What does shutter speed control?

Answer 14

• Light

* Action and movement

Question 15

What does 1/30 shutter speed mean?

Answer 15

• One thirtieth of a second

* Slower

Question 16

What does 1/8000 shutter speed mean?

Answer 16

• One 8000 of a second

* Faster

Question 17

What does increasing ISO produce?

Answer 17

• Increased exposure

* Brighter image

Question 18

What does decreasing ISO produce?

Answer 18

• Decreased exposure

* Darker image

Question 19

What does ISO control?

Answer 19

• Light

* Exposure

Question 20

What does ISO 100 mean?

Answer 20

• Not light sensitive

* Best for outdoors

Question 21

What does ISO 6400 mean?

Answer 21

• Very light sensitive

* Best for low light situations

Question 22

What are metering modes?

Answer 22

The ways in which a camera determines exposure.

Question 23

What is the Matrix/Evaluative metering mode?

Answer 23

• Standard setting
• Camera reads exposure from all areas of the frame
• Good for shooting events or diverse light situations

Question 24

What is the Spot Metering mode?

Answer 24

• Camera reads exposure from a single focus point

Question 25

What is Center-weighted metering mode?

Answer 25

* Camera reads exposure from the center of your frame and surrounding areas * Best for portraits

Question 26

What is exposure bracketing?

Answer 26

Taking multiple shots of the same image in order to find the optimum single shot for exposure.

Question 27

What is HDR (High Dynamic Range)?

Answer 27

A post processing technique of layering photos of different exposures to create the perfectly exposed picture.