Can you get the perfect score on this photography quiz?
Jun 14, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Being a photographer packs a whole lot of knowledge. You need to know your gear, composition, lighting, and a bunch of rules that you should follow (and then break). Not to mention photo editing programs, color theory, and some theory and history. But that’s why we love photography, right – there’s always something to learn and explore.
If you want to check your knowledge, we have a quiz for you. It lets you test yourself and see how much you know your theory, your cameras and lenses, your lighting, and even a little bit of history. So, take a look, test your knowledge, and most importantly: have fun!
BTW, the questions change each time you take the quiz, so you can take it multiple times.
Which keyboard shortcut do you use to change the overlay grid modes in Lightroom?
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Which one is caused by a rolling shutter?
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What tool can you use instead of a Pencil tool in Photoshop?
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What does this histogram mean?
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When was the first digital camera introduced?
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If your light was one meter away from your subject and now it’s two meters away:
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What does the trichrome process allow you to do?
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What settings does the camera’s Program mode figure out for you?
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Which tool lets you remove unwanted objects in Photoshop?
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An aperture of f/8 is
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38. What is the crop factor for Canon EF-S bodies?
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What happens when you change the aperture from f/16 to f/8
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Shooting at 1/500s f/11 yields the same exposure as shooting at
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When do you have to calculate hyperfocal distance?
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An X16 neutral density (ND) filter…
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When shooting stars, what approximate shutter speed to use to avoid streaks?
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The lighting that creates a triangle of light on a subject’s cheek is called…?
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ISO 100 is how many stops different from ISO 640?
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What is the formula of the Inverse Square Law?
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What does the lens compression do when you use a telephoto lens?
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If you go above your camera’s sync speed:
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What is pentaprism?
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On a parfocal lens, you can…
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What is moiré?
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Which letter marks the aperture in cine lenses?
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Complete the sequence: 5.6, 8, 11, ??
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What does ASA denote in film photography?
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What do luminosity masks do in Lightroom and Photoshop?
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What does the shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+R do in Photoshop?
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What do we call the phenomenon in the picture?
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What causes a black line in the bottom of your photo when shooting with flash?
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What’s the most prominent feature of anamorphic lenses?
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Who was the person who took the first photo ever?
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What is the general rule for the shutter speed when filming video?
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What tool can you not use in Lightroom to adjust brightness and contrast in your photos?
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What do we call the distance between the lens and the image sensor?
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What does the symbol in the red circle mean?
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What are the elements of the exposure triangle?
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What does the shortcut X do in Lightroom?
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What is zone focusing?
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Which temperature yields the “bluest” light?
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Your shot will be shaky if…
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37. What is “Crop Factor”?
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Which aperture obtains the shallowest depth of field?
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What shot can be enhanced with a polarizer filter (CPL)?
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By the Sunny 16 Rule, on a clear, sunny day you should:
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DIYP quiz: So, you think you know EVERYTHING about photography?
You must be at the very beginning of your photography journey. But worry not, you’ll learn more stuff as you go.
You seem to know a little photography-related things, but a long road is still ahead of you. Keep on shooting and keep on learning!
You know some stuff, but there’s still room from improvement.
Still some areas that need improvement, but your knowledge is pretty good overall. Well done!
Well done! You aced this quiz, you’re a photography (and editing) master :)
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Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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7 responses to “Can you get the perfect score on this photography quiz?”
Got a perfect round score :)
Pretty useful to look for gaps. Helps me in learning on some points I had misconception about.
Though, it looks like my first need is some more english lessons :D .
Thank you.
I don’t understand what is considered the right answer for the question “What does this histogram mean?“… The blue triangle in the histogram clearly means that highlights are clipped.
And for all practical purposes, it is almost perfectly exposed, especially if it was a night photo…
This was fun!???
fun
I got 3 questions about lightroom in a row lmao, I use capture one so I’m doomed to fail this from the start ?