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This set of Still Photography Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Still Photography Set 2

Q1 | What is a photon?
  • a particle of light energy
  • a measure of light energy
  • a stream of light energy
  • none of these
Q2 | What was Roger Fenton famous for?
  • war photography
  • founding the royal photographic society?
  • both
  • none of these
Q3 | When was the first proper flashbulb invented?
  • 1920
  • 1925
  • 1930
  • none of these
Q4 | What is a ‘magic lantern’?
  • a slide projector
  • an early enlarger
  • a flashbulb
  • none of these
Q5 | Your negative is very weak with very little shadow detail. Why?
  • under exposure and under development
  • under exposure and over development
  • over exposure and over development
  • none of these
Q6 | Focus finders are found in
  • studios
  • darkrooms
  • cameras
  • none of these
Q7 | The term "photography" was first used by____________, in 1839, the year the photographicprocessbecame public.
  • sir john herscel
  • tim donald
  • fox talbot
  • thomas alwa edison
Q8 | MFD stands for ________________
  • minimum focusing distance
  • maximum focusing
  • distance minimum focusing direction
  • none of the above
Q9 | Wide angle lens
  • focal length is smaller
  • focal length is longer
  • large size of the lense
  • none of the aboveaspect ratio
Q10 | key light
  • principle illuminator
  • back light
  • soft light
  • none of the above
Q11 | POV
  • point of view
  • picture of vision
  • photographs of visual
  • none of the above
Q12 | A photographic process developed by inventor William Henry Fox Talbot in 1853 thatallowed him to make multiple copies of a positive image from a single “negative.”
  • stroboscope
  • calotype
  • zoetrop
  • none of these
Q13 | ________________ is a process developed by French physicist Joseph Niepce in 1816 thatproduced a positive copy of an engraving by exposing a glass plate coated with asphaltlike substance
  • texography
  • heliography
  • developing
  • none of these
Q14 | _____________ is a photographic image made without a camera ,generally by contact printingobject placed directly on the photographic paper.
  • photogram
  • photo testing
  • photo sketching
  • none of these
Q15 | Edison is considered the father of movie studio. His studio was known as ______________
  • edison parlour
  • film strip parlour
  • black maria
  • black edison
Q16 | The first shot is a man looking up. The second shot is a low angle shot of a high riseapartment. The second shot is a _____________________________shot
  • long shot
  • mid – shot
  • extreme long shot
  • point - of – view
Q17 | The light source that casts sharp, well define shadows is called ____________________
  • key light
  • fill light
  • set light
  • hard light
Q18 | A camera mounting that straps the camera to the body of the operator to keep therecorded image reasonably steady is known as _______________________
  • steadicam
  • sturdycam
  • studycam
  • none of the above
Q19 | The ……tool allows you to copy one area of the layer to another area of the layer.
  • clone stamp
  • magic wand
  • marquee
  • gradient
Q20 | To turn-off the use of a tool, or deselect it, you must push the ……key.
  • ctrl +z
  • shift + z
  • shift + d
  • ctrl + d
Q21 | When selecting an area of pixels to delete, which of the following tool could be used?
  • magic wand
  • marquee
  • paint bucket
  • gradient
Q22 | __________________is a raster graphics editor (with significant vector graphics functionality).
  • adobe photoshop
  • adobe flash
  • adobe illustrator
  • adobe dreamweaver
Q23 | A new layer can be created by pressing __________________
  • alt+ctrl+ n
  • shift+ctrl+n
  • alt+shift+n
  • none of these
Q24 | The _________________________tool selects areas of similar color.
  • lasso
  • marquee
  • move
  • magic wand
Q25 | The ______________________________________is used to trim images.
  • paint bucket
  • eraser
  • gradient
  • crop