Can you get the perfect score on this photography quiz?

Jun 14, 2023

Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

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.

What does ASA denote in film photography?

The film’s sensitivity to light

The size of film

The type of film

The film format

Correct! Wrong!

Shooting at 1/500s f/11 yields the same exposure as shooting at

1/250 f/8

1/250 f/11

1/125 f/22

1/1000 f/16

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What tool can you use instead of a Pencil tool in Photoshop?

Pen tool

Brush tool

Rectangle tool

Arrow tool

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What does the trichrome process allow you to do?

Create color photos from black and white film

Create three-color gradients

Color grade an image with different colors for highlights, midtones, and shadows

Colorize a black and white image

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Which temperature yields the “bluest” light?

30 Celsius

20 Celsius

5600 Kelvin

3200 Kelvin

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What’s the most prominent feature of anamorphic lenses?

Ultra-wide aspect ratio

Horizontal flare

Oval-shaped bokeh

All answers are correct

Correct! Wrong!

If you go above your camera’s sync speed:

Your strobe won’t work

Your strobe will only affect part of the photo

Sync speed has nothing to do with strobes

The camera will automatically compensate with a bigger aperture

Correct! Wrong!

When was the first digital camera introduced?

In 1993

In 1975

In 2000

In 1989

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Which aperture obtains the shallowest depth of field?

f/8

f/2.8

f/1.2

f/16

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ISO 100 is how many stops different from ISO 640?

2 and 2/3

3 and 1/3

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The lighting that creates a triangle of light on a subject’s cheek is called…?

Triangle lighting

Rembrandt lighting

Butterfly lighting

Split lighting

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What are the elements of the exposure triangle?

Shutter speed, ISO, and flash duration

Aperture, ISO, and flash duration

ISO, aperture, and subject’s distance from the light source

Shutter speed, aperture, and ISO

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By the Sunny 16 Rule, on a clear, sunny day you should:

Place the aperture at f/16, and match the shutter speed to 1/ISO

Place the aperture at f/16 and ISO at 100

Place the aperture at f/16 and the shutter speed at 1/500s

Place the aperture at f/16 and the shutter speed at 1/160 s

Correct! Wrong!

Who was the person who took the first photo ever?

Luis Leon Masson

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Robert Cornelius

Joseph Byron

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What happens when you change the aperture from f/16 to f/8

More light enters the camera

You get more depth of field

The iris blades close up

You should increase ISO

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Which keyboard shortcut do you use to change the overlay grid modes in Lightroom?

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An X16 neutral density (ND) filter…

…will cut away four degrees of reflections

…will cut away four stops of light

…will change the tint of the sky by four points

…will “warm up” water by 400 Kelvin

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Your shot will be shaky if…

…your shutter speed is slower than the reciprocal of the focal length

…your shutter speed is under 1/160s

…your shutter speed is faster than the reciprocal of the focal length

…your shutter speed is two times the reciprocal of the focal length

Correct! Wrong!

If your light was one meter away from your subject and now it’s two meters away:

You get 1/4 the light

You get 1/3 the light

You get half the light

You get twice the light

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What is the formula of the Inverse Square Law?

The intensity of light is inversely proportional to the square of its distance from the subject

The intensity of light is two times lower than its distance from the subjects

The intensity of light equals the square of its distance to the subject

The intensity of light is doubled when you cut the light-to-subject distance by half

Correct! Wrong!

What causes a black line in the bottom of your photo when shooting with flash?

Setting flash exposure compensation too high

Setting flash exposure compensation too low

Exceeding the maximum flash sync speed of the camera

Putting your finger on the flash

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What does the symbol in the red circle mean?

The camera is safe for underground

Center of weight for camera

The sensor focal plane

How far can a lens protrude the camera body

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What does the lens compression do when you use a telephoto lens?

Makes the subject appear further away from the camera

Makes the background appear closer to the subject

Makes the background appear further away from the subject

Makes the subject appear elongated

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What is pentaprism?

A three-sided prism

A prism inside of SLR cameras

A prism-effect lens filter

A prism inside of mirrorless cameras

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What is moiré?

Another name for digital noise

The reflection of the camera flash from shiny surfaces

A halo in over-processed images

A pattern the sensor creates when shooting fine repeated details

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What is zone focusing?

Pre-focusing for a certain distance to achieve acceptable sharpness in fast-paced situations

Dividing your scene into zones, choosing one to be tack-sharp and setting focus on it

Focusing on the subjects nearest to your lens

Focusing on the subjects furthest away from your lens

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What tool can you not use in Lightroom to adjust brightness and contrast in your photos?

Levels

Curves

Highlights/Shadows sliders

Whites/Blacks sliders

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What does the shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+R do in Photoshop?

Toggles foreground and background color

Selects the Eyedropper tool

Rotates your image

Shows a Ruler

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What do we call the phenomenon in the picture?

Reflection

Inflection

Refraction

Fraction

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Complete the sequence: 5.6, 8, 11, ??

1.4

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When shooting stars, what approximate shutter speed to use to avoid streaks?

500 divided by your lens’ focal length

1000 divided by your lens’ focal length

500 divided by your ISO value

200 divided by you ISO value

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On a parfocal lens, you can…

Change the zoom with no impact to focus

Change the zoom with no impact to aperture

Change the aperture with no impact on light

Change the focus with no impact on exposure

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When do you have to calculate hyperfocal distance?

When you want the objects far from your lens to be sharp

When you want to shoot in a fast-paced environment

When you want both close and far objects to be sharp

When your lens autofocus is broken

Correct! Wrong!

Which tool lets you remove unwanted objects in Photoshop?

Spot Healing Brush Tool

Patch Tool

Clone Stamp Tool

All answers are correct

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Which one is caused by a rolling shutter?

Warps and distortions in fast-moving subjects

Flickering in a video

Underexposed images

All answers are correct

Correct! Wrong!

37. What is “Crop Factor”?

The size of the image after you crop it

The difference between the widest and the narrowest focal lengths of a zoom lens

The size of a camera’s sensor plane relative to the 35mm film

The ratio you use to crop the image (e.g. 4:3, 16:9, etc.)

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What does this histogram mean?

Clipping will occur in the shadows

Clipping will occur in the highlights

The image is overexposed

The image is correctly exposed

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What settings does the camera’s Program mode figure out for you?

The shutter speed and the aperture

The shutter speed and the ISO

The aperture and the ISO

Only the shutter speed

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An aperture of f/8 is

Half as much light as f/5.6

Twice as much light as f/5.6

Twice as much light as f/16

Half as much light as f/11

Correct! Wrong!

Which letter marks the aperture in cine lenses?

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What is the general rule for the shutter speed when filming video?

1/half the frame rate

Triple the frame rate

Equal the frame rate

1/double the frame rate

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What do we call the distance between the lens and the image sensor?

Focal plane

Focal length

Focal layout

Lens length

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What shot can be enhanced with a polarizer filter (CPL)?

A contrasty sky

Fish in the water

A rainbow photo

All answers are correct

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What do luminosity masks do in Lightroom and Photoshop?

Allow you to adjust Luminance

Reduce luminance noise

Target specific tones in the image based on their brightness

Blend layers based on luminance

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What does the shortcut X do in Lightroom?

Switches to Survey view

Switches to Grid view

Flags a photo as a reject

Flags a photo as a pick

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38. What is the crop factor for Canon EF-S bodies?

1.5

1.6

1.4

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So, what’s your score? Share it with us in the comments.

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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?”

udi tirosh

Feb 14, 2021

Got a perfect round score :)

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Pierre Lagarde

Feb 14, 2021

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.

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Mathieu Carbou

Feb 14, 2021

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.

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1. Jurgen Lobert
  
  Feb 19, 2021
  
  And for all practical purposes, it is almost perfectly exposed, especially if it was a night photo…
  
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Trino Pam

Feb 15, 2021

This was fun!???

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John Beatty

Feb 18, 2021

fun

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ShishkaBerry

Feb 23, 2021

I got 3 questions about lightroom in a row lmao, I use capture one so I’m doomed to fail this from the start ?

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