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Photography I
Final Exam Review
• Best Light of day for photos: the Golden Hours (1 hour
after sunrise & 1 hour before sunset)
Movement
Aperture
Slow Shutter, Fast Shutter
The shutter is inside the camera.
Pixels
A megapixel equals 1,000,000 pixels.
File Formats
• .jpg
small file for the web & email
• .tiff
large file “pure” will not pixalate
no matter how often it is opened.
• .psd
photoshop file
• .png
newer version of a .jpg
better
quality
File Resolutions
• 300 dpi print quality
• 72 dpi for web
• 180dpi what our digital camera uses
• The keys you use to make the clone stamp tool
work is “option”.
• To darken a picture you use the “burn tool”.
• The selection tool that “clings to the edges” of
an image is the magnetic lasso.
• A color scheme that “pops” off the page is
Complimentary.
• Jerry Uelsmann’s style of photography is
“surrealism”.
• Contrast is controlled by: brightness &
darkness, curves, levels, or exposure
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Warm colors are “fire” colors
Cool colors are colors of water
Fauvism is strong line and bright colors.
We print at 8 x 10 inches
Grayscale is the same as Black & White
Monochromatic is one color with it’s shades
and tints.
• A checkered background means the picture is
transparent
• Best time to get photos is early evening and
early morning.
• RGB are monitor colors
• CMYK are printing colors
• You can get colors from the web with the
eyedrop tool in Photoshop
• To reset the preferences in Photoshop hold
down command, option and shift and relaunch
the program.
• You use the Rule of Thirds to get a good
composition in photos.
Line
a narrow mark
Form
3D
Shape
2D
Space
Texture
Value
Balance
Asymmetrical
Symmetrical
Contrast
Emphasis
Movement
Pattern
Rhythm
Unity
Warm Colors
Cool Colors
Complimentary Colors
Sepia Colors
Monochromatic Colors