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WorksheetsHistory of Photography
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does the word "photography" literally mean?
"light traces"
"writing with light"
"images in light"
"shadow images"
What was the first version of the camera called?
Camera of ambivalence
Lightbox
Brownie
Camera obscura
What was the camera obscura used for in the Renaissance?
Tracing outlines of shapes for paintings.
Michelangelo's home movie theater.
Viewing faraway galaxies and planets.
Taking photos on film.
What was so special about silver salts?
They were used to make camera lenses.
They were discovered to be a photosensitive material, meaning they would change color when exposed to light.
They could be melted down into convincing counterfeit coins.
They are used in digital cameras today as a light meter.
Who took the first photo using a camera obscura, silver salts, and lavender oil?
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George Eastman
Thomas Edison
Joseph Niepce
Who took the first photo of a human?
Louis Daguerre
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Joseph Niepce
Benjamin Franklin
What was so special about the calotype (the photographing process using a negative)?
It allowed photographers to make multiple prints of the same photo.
It produced only one image at a time.
It was a simple one-step process.
It was much easier, quicker and less expensive than the daguerreotype.
George Eastman and his company Kodak changed the photographic process by inventing what?
The camera obscura
The daguerreotype
Rolls of film so photographers could take multiple photos
Lavender oil to "fix" an image, making it permanent
Why was the brownie camera important?
It was affordable, allowing most of the public to have access to photography for the first time;
It contained the first ever rolls of film.
It was the first camera created from a chocolate brownie.
It was expensive and was only affordable to the very wealthy.
How does a camera obscura work?
Items are placed on top of glass painted with silver salts and put into the sun, taking a temporary "sun picture."
A small light-tight box is filled with film, allowing photographers to take up to 100 pictures at a time.
A shutter opens in the camera, allowing light to hit a sensor and capture an image permanently.
All light is blocked out in a room, except for a small pinhole. Through the pinhole, the image of the outside is projected onto the opposite wall.
