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What does the word "photograph" mean? |
writing with light |
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The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________. |
a human eye |
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The first cameras were ________. |
room-sized |
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The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark. |
false |
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When were the first successful photographs made using a camera? |
early 1800’s |
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Daguerreotypes are made on ________. |
polished metal plates |
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A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________. |
it creates very detailed images |
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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________. |
calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced |
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Match the early photographic innovator with his invention: |
William Henry Fox Talbot: calotype Louis-Jacques Mande’ Daguerre: Daguerreotype |
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Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective. |
false |
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Julia Margaret Cameron accidentally created soft-focus photographs. |
false |
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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange: |
first passed the pea-pickers’ camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures |
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One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre, featuring: |
plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window |
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In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________. |
truthful |
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Match the photographic term with its definition |
positive: image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it negative: image that reverses the tones of light and dark subject: the person, place, or thing photographed photojournalism: using photographs to tell a news story photomontage: a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced |
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Digital film-making has taken over as the dominant technology in the film industry. |
false |
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The difference between film and video is: |
the way that the images are recorded |
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The way that images appear to be moving in films and videos is actually an optical illusion. |
true |
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The theory that describes the way separate images viewed at regular intervals create the appearance of continuous motion is called ________. |
persistence of vision |
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In full gallop, a horse’s legs are ________ when all of them are off the ground. |
underneath its body |
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As Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments with motion showed, ________. |
the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see |
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the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see |
false |
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Georges Méliès’s film A Trip to the Moon is known for being: |
all of the other answers |
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Auteur theory ________. |
all of the other answers |
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David Fincher’s House of Cards is known especially for being ________. |
a mini-series with a full season’s episodes released simultaneously |
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