Photo Journalism Multiple Choice Questions
1. Fundamental colours of digital imaging
A. CMYK
B. RGB
C. YRB
D. RTG
Answer: (B)
2. Which file format is used to exchange files between applications
A. JPEG
B. TIFF
C. PSD
D. BMP
Answer: (B)
3. Rules of third
A. Camera handling rule
B. Composition rule
C. Rules of lighting
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
4. CCD
A. Sensor
B. Lens
C. Shutter
D. Flash
Answer: (A)
5. Capturing
A. Focusing
B. cloning
C. Exposing
D. making image sharper
Answer: (C)
6. Tiff
A. Text format
B. Image format
C. Information format
D. Accounts format
Answer: (B)
7. LCD in camera is not for
A. Helps to view frames
B. Helps measure light
C. Helps to focus
D. Helps view modes
Answer: (B)
8. Depth of Field
A. Area in front and behind of Subject.
B. Zooming capacity of Lens
C. Frame size of the lens
D. View finder dimension
Answer: (A)
9. What is the ideal resolution of print production
A. 72 dpi
B. 300 dpi
C. 100 dpi
D. 250 dpi
Answer: (B)
10. Contrast
A. Calibration term
B. Visual term
C. Scaling term
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
11. Pick the kind of tab that Quark does not support:
A. Left
B. Align On
C. Decimal
D. Flush
Answer: (C)
12. How many master pages can create in Quark
A. Unlimited
B. 127
C.172
D. 2. 2
Answer: (A)
13. Leading means
A. Space between Paragraphs
B. Space between two characters
C. Space between more than two words
D. Spaces between lines
Answer: (D)
14. Which command is found in the Quark File menu
A. Style Sheets
B. Collect for Output
C. Show Guides
D. Check Spelling
Answer: (C)
15. One of the following is an operating system
A. Corel Draw
B. Windows 7
C. Acrobat
D. MS access
Answer: (B)
16. Which of the following can’t be included in a character style sheet
A. Shortcut key
B. Leading
C. Font color
D. Tracking
Answer: (A)
17. The Color model used to display in Electronic Media
A. CMYK
B. HSB
C.RGB
D. BMP
Answer: (C)
18. Which one of the following is a web design tool
A. Page maker
B. MS Power point
C. Quarkxpress
D. MS word
Answer: (C)
19. Leap office
A. Malayalam text editor
B. Presentation Software
C. Image Editor
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
20. Page layout software
A. Acrobat
B. Page maker
C. Power Point
D. Autocad
Answer: (B)
21. Your negative is very weak with very little shadow detail. Why?
A. Under exposure and under development
B. Under exposure and over development
C. Over exposure and over development
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
22. What is ‘posterization’?
A. extreme tone separation
B. partial image reversal
C. total image reversal
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
23. David Seyour was the founder of which group?
A. Societe
B. Heliographique
C. Magnum
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
24. Which camera (from around 1984) used solar energy to assist the batteries?
A. Nikon FA
B. Ricoh XR-S
C. Pentax LX
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
25. Your black and white print has mottled tones despite full development. Why?
A. old paper
B. contaminated stop bath
C. exhausted fixer
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
26. What is ‘chiaroscuro’?
A. a lens aberration
B. a light and shade effect
C. warped negative film
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
27. What temperature should colour film be developed at?
A. 95 degrees Celsius
B. 100 degrees celsius
C. 105 degrees Celsius
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
28. Daylight colour film is balanced for light at
A. 3200 K
B. 3400 K
C. 5400 K
D. 3000 K
Answer: (C)
29. Circles of confusion are most prominent in
A. mirror lens
B. zoom lens
C. fisheye lens
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
30. Magenta is a combination of
A. red and blue light
B. red and green light
C. blue and green light
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
31. The world’s first photographic portrait studio was opened in
A. 1840
B. 1850
C. 1860
D.1870
Answer: (A)
32. The world’s first all electric photographic studio was opened in
A. 1877
B. 1897
C. 1917
D. 1887
Answer: (A)
33. Incident light
A. falls on the subject
B. is reflected from the subject
C. backlights the subject
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
34. Who coined the term ‘photography’?
A. Fox Talbot
B. Nicephore Niepce
C. Sir John Herschel
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
35. What is a photon?
A. A particle of light energy
B. A measure of light energy
C. A stream of light energy
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
36. What type of development process does Kodachrome need?
A. Additive
B. Subtractive
C. Dye replacement
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
37. Your print needs 8 seconds at f5.6 (in a diffuser enlarger). You decide to use f11, what is your new exposure?
A. 16 seconds
B. 24 seconds
C. 32 seconds
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
38. What was Roger Fenton famous for?
A. War photography
B. Founding the Royal Photographic Society?
C. Both
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
39. When was the first proper flashbulb invented?
A. 1920
B.1925
C.1930
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
40. What is a ‘magic lantern’?
A. a slide projector
B. an early enlarger
C. a flashbulb
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
41. Panchromatic film is sensitive to
A. all light
B. all light bar red
C. all light bar green
D. none of these
Answer: (A)
42. Parallax error is due to
A. your flash mis-timing
B. viewing and taking lenses being separate
C. flaws in ultra wide angle lenses
D. none of these
Answer: (B)
43. What is the angle of view on a fisheye lens?
A. 180 degrees
B. 225 degrees
C. 270 degrees
D. 290 degrees
Answer: (A)
44. Focus finders are found in
A. studios
B. darkrooms
C. cameras
D. none of these
Answer: (B)
45. The term “photography” was first used by……………., in 1839, the year the photographic process became public.
A.Sir John Herscel
B.Tim Donald
C.Fox Talbot
D. Thomas Alwa Edison
Answer: (A)
46. What temperature should colour film be developed at?
A. 95 degrees Celsius
B. 100 degrees celsius
C. 105 degrees Celsius
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
47. Cross platform file format
A. PDF
B. doc
C. PSD
D. PM4
Answer: (A)
48. A Camera Lucida is
A. an artists aid
B. an early box camera
C. a type of rangefinder camera
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
49. What type of development process does Kodachrome need?
A. Additive
B. Subtractive
C. Dye replacement
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
50. Image Editing Software
A. MS Excel
B. Flash
C. Power Point
D. Pagemaker
Answer: (B)
51. Visible spectrum of the light has a wavelength in the range of:
A. 1000 to 4000 Ao
B. 4000 to 7000 Ao
C. 7500 to 12500 Ao
D. 12500 to 30000 Ao
Answer: (B)
52. Luminous flux is:
A. The rate of energy radiation in the form of light waves
B. The part of light energy radiated from light source
C. Measured in Lux
D. Both a and c
Answer: (A)
53 . Candela is the unit of:
A. Illumination
B. Luminous intensity
C. Luminance
D. Light energy
Answer: (B)
54. Sky appears to be blue because of:
A. Radiation of light over dust particles
B. Reflection of light over dust particles
C. Refraction of light over dust particles
D. Scattering of light over dust particles
Answer: (D)
55. Candle power is:
A. The luminous flux emitted by the source per unit solid angle
B. The part of the light energy radiated by the sun that is received by earth
C. Measured in Lux
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
56. An object which appears to be red to the eyes absorbs:
A. Blue radiation
B. Violet radiation
C. Green radiation
D. Absorbs all the above radiation
Answer: (D)
57. Which of the following colour has the wavelength between blue and yellow:
A. Violet
B. Orange
C. Red
D. Green
Answer: (D)
58. Which of the materials is most commonly used for the filaments in the incandescent lamps:
A. Tungsten
B. Tin
C. Silver
D. Asbestos
Answer: (A)
59. The expected life of an incandescent lamp is about:
A. 100 hours
B. 200 hours
C. 500 hours
D. 1000 hours
Answer: (D)
60. ‘Camera’ is actually a Latin word meaning
A. picture box
B. room
C. light box
D. none of the above
Answer: (B)
61. The Camera Obscura was first recorded in
A. 400BC
B. 1600 AD
C. 1800 AD
D. 800 AD
Answer: (A)
62. A Camera Lucida is
A. an artists aid
B. an early box camera
C. a type of rangefinder camera
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
63. Which of the following parts of the eye are the most colour sensitive
A. the rods
B. the cones
C. the iris
D. the retina
Answer: (B)
64. The world’s oldest surviving photograph was taken in
A. 1826
B. 1836
C. 1846
D.1889
Answer: (A)
65. The first Canon camera was released in
A. 1930
B. 1935
C. 1940
D.1923
Answer: (B)
66. What is a ‘dolly’?
A. a heavy tripod
B. a remote flash
C. a camera case
D. None of these
Answer: (A)
67. What was the first camera to be used on the moon?
A. Liecaflex SL MOT
B. Hasseblad 500EL HEC
C. Mamiya RB67
D. None of these
Answer: (B)
68. A Candela is a measure of light
A. wavelength
B. temperature
C. intensity
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
69. When was the first ever colour photograph taken?
A. 1861
B. 1881
C. 1901
D. 1900
Answer: (A)
70. Lenses are usually coated with
A. magnesium fluoride
B. sodium fluoride
C. zinc fluorite
D. none of these
Answer: (A)
71. Image resolution
A. Pixels
B. Bitmap
C. Line
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
72. Ambient light
A. available light at surrounding
B. Backlight
C. Artificial light
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
3. Autofocus
A. Lens automatically focus
B. Manual focus
C.view finder focus
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
74. Back lighting
A. Light from the foreground
B. Light behind camera
C. Light behind the object
D. None of these
Answer: (C)
75. Candid pictures
A. Posed picture
B. Unposed picture
C. Group photo
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
76. Catridge
A. Camera container
B. Film container
C. Flash container
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
77. Colour noise
A. Acuracy of signals
B. Disturbance c.
C. Vibration
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
78. Composition
A. Arrangements of camera parts
B. Pleasing arrangements of elements
C. Focusing
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
79. Contact Print
A. Exposing contact with negative
B. Digital printing
C. Screen printing
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
80. Double exposure
A. exposing two times
B. Two images printed in paper
C. Consecutive exposure
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
81. Memory card
A. Balancing pixels
B. Storage device
C. Information format
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
82. Image Editing Software
A. MS Excel
B. Flash
C. Power Point
D. Pagemaker
Answer: (B)
83. General Character of SLR Camera
A. Interchangeable Lens
B. Fixed Lens with Optical Zoom
C. No Image sensors
D. Auto Focus
Answer: (A)
84. ………………… Is not an image Format
A. Bitmap
B. GIF
C. PIXEL
D.JPEG
Answer: (C)
85. Which colour mode is used for pre press
A.CMYK
B.HSB
C.PANTONE
D. RGB
Answer: (A)
86. One of the following is not an image editing software
A. Page maker
B. Photoshop
C. Dream weaver
D. Flash
Answer: (A)
87. File format is used for maximum compression
A. JPEG
B. TIFF
C. PSD
D. BMP
Answer: (A)
88. ISO number in film
A. Film speed rating
B. Quality standard Number
C. Internal system Number
D. Aperture order number
Answer: (A)
89. Magic wand tool
A. To select coloured area
B. To clone image
C. Editing documents
D. To make image sharper
Answer: (A)
90. Which file format is for Photoshop
A.JPEG
B. PSD
C.ODT
D. DOC
Answer: (B)
91. What kind of style is not supported by Quark
A. Character
B. Printer
C. Paragraph
D. Document
Answer: (A)
92. A Digital Image contains
A. Pixels
B. Bitmap
C. Resolution
D. Vector Images
Answer: (A)
93. Image Editing Software
A. Photoshop
B. Page maker
C. MS Excel
D. Power Point
Answer: (A)
94. What is the ideal resolution of an image for web
A. 72 dpi
B. 300 dpi
C. 100 dpi
D. 250 dpi
Answer: (A)
95. Amount of light that falls in to the sensor of the camera
A. Exposure
B. White balance
C. Depth of Field
D. Three point lighting
Answer: (A)
96. Contrast
A. Balancing Pixels
B. Dealing with Colour
C. Scaling Files
D. masking
Answer: (B)
97. LCD
A. Liquid Crystal Display
B. Lens Camera display
C. Light Control Device
D. Linear Control Display
Answer: (A)
98. Tiff Files
A. Tiled Image format
B. Tagged Image file format
C. Typical Information format
D. Title Interchange Format
Answer: (B)
99. Cross platform file format
A. PDF
B. doc
C. PSD
D. PM4
Answer: (A)
100. ISO
A. International Organization for Standardization
B. Indian Optical Standards
C. Internal Office system
D. Information of Standards
Answer: (A)
101. A Digital Image is made up of thousands of
A. Pixels
B. Bitmap
C. Resolution
D. Vector Images
Answer: (A)
102. CCD
A. Charge Coupled Device
B. Computer core Device
C. Complementary color data
D. Charge computer Digit
Answer: (A)
103. What is the ideal resolution of an image for Printing
A. 72 dpi
B. 300 dpi
C. 100 dpi
D. 250 dpi
Answer: (B)
104. SLR
A. Single Lens Reflex
B. Semi Lens Reflector
C. System Linear Remote
D. Specification of Lens range
Answer: (A)
105. Camera modes
A. Portrait
B. lens
C. View finder
D. Focal length
Answer: (A)
106. Aperture:
A. Controls the size of the hole
B. Controls speed of shoot
C. Controls CCD
D. none of the above
Answer: (A)
107. ISO Number
A. Sensitivity of the film to light
B. Serial no of film
C. Frame no. of film
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
108. shutter speed
A. Control exposure timing
B. control light,
C. control Resolution
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
109. Difference in luminance
A. Harmony
B. Composition
C. Contrast
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
110. image compression
A. JPEG
B. psd
C. txt
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
111. Emulsion
A. Light sensitive gelatin
B. Developing chemical
C. Digital ink
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
112. Fill-In-Light
A. Back ground light
B. Additional light to soften
C. Natural light
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
113. Filter
A. Coloured piece of glass
B. A mesh
C. Muslin cloth
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
114. Flat lighting
A. High contrast
B. Little contrast
C. For shadow
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
115. Focal length
A. Distance between film and centre of lens
B. distance between foreground and background
C. Distance between object and film.
D. None of the above
Answer: (A)
116. Foreground
A. Area between lens and sensor
B. area between camera and object
C. Area between photographer and camera
D. None of the above
Answer: (B)
117. …………… has been defined as taking of photographs to provide a record of social and political situations with the aim of conveying information
A. Documentary photography
B. Wild life photography
C.Travel photography
D. Sports photography .
Answer: (A)
118. Long distance photography is facilitated by—
A. Visible light
B. X-rays
C. Infra Red rays
D. Ultra violet rays
Answer: (C)
119. A ‘bleeding’ picture is one that is
A. without borders
B. badly printed
C. streaked due to exhausted developer
D. Note of these
Answer: (A)
120. Visible light occurs between
A. 3000 and 8000 Angstrom
B. 3000 and 7000 Angstrom
C. 4000 and 7000 Angstrom
D. None of these
Answer: (C)