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Photo History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the significance of this image?
a)
First Photograph
b)
Calotype
c)
Wet Plate 
d)
Surreal 
2.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce

3.

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

a)

Joseph Niepce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

Robert Cornelius

d)

George Eastman

4.
This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the opposite wall.
a)
Kodak Brownie
b)
Camera Obscura
c)
Polaroid
d)
Daguerreotype
5.

He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film.

a)

Edweard Muybridge

b)

George Eastman

c)

Luis Daguerre

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

6.

How long was the exposure time for the first ever photographic image?

a)

8 seconds

b)

8 minutes

c)

8 hours

d)

8 days

7.
Photography comes from 2 words meaning?
a)
picture/drawing
b)
light/drawing
c)
drawing/color
8.

Why was the brownie camera important?

a)

It was affordable, allowing most of the public to have access to photography for the first time;

b)

It contained the first ever rolls of film.

c)

It was the first camera created from a chocolate brownie.

d)

It was expensive and was only affordable to the very wealthy.

9.

Which was the first color photograph taken in 1861?

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

True or False? This image has the rule of thirds element.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Is this photo symmetrical or asymmetrical?

a)

Symmetrical

b)

Asymmetrical

12.
Name the prominent Element of Composition being used in the following image...
a)
fill the frame
b)
leading lines
c)
mergers
d)
rule of thirds
13.
Name the prominent Element of Composition being used in the following image...
a)
Leading Lines
b)
Visual Perspective
c)
mergers
d)
Frame your subject
14.
Use this, when you want to show unique and dramatic angles of your subject.
a)
color
b)
rule of thirds
c)
value
d)
visual perspective
15.
While completing the Foot Zoom assignment, your last image should have...
a)
created a merger
b)
led your subject
c)
filled the frame
d)
been black and white
16.
Composition means...
a)
taking apart
b)
making music
c)
randomly connected
d)
putting together
17.

This image shows which compositional technique?

a)

Birds Eye View

b)

Forced Perspective

c)

Symmetry

d)

Rule of Thirds

18.

What is a composition?

a)

The colors and shapes of a photograph

b)

The placement and arrangement of elements in a work of art

c)

The subject matter of an image

d)

The caption of a photograph

19.

This photo shows which rule of composition?

a)

Photojournalism

b)

Shallow Depth of Field

c)

Leading Lines

d)

Symmetry

20.
This photo is an example of...
a)
Backlighting
b)
Framing
c)
Macro
d)
Rule of thirds