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Creative Art Composition U6L8 Chapter 9 Examination: Photography Concepts and Techniques, Exams of Photography

A comprehensive examination covering key concepts and techniques in photography. It explores various aspects of composition, including radial composition, symmetry, perspective, and framing. The document also delves into the historical evolution of photography, highlighting the contributions of prominent photographers like alfred stieglitz, margaret bourke-white, and ansel adams. Through multiple-choice questions and answers, it provides a valuable resource for students to assess their understanding of fundamental photographic principles.

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Creative Art Composition U6L8
Chapter 9 Examination
1. What technical element accounts for the visible details seen
throughout Jane and Louise Wilson's photograph? - Correct
Ans: ✅The photograph's exposure time.
2. How did Louis-Jacques-Mandes Daguerre's process differ from
that of the early camera obscura? - Correct Ans: ✅It was
made using a metal plate on which the image was fixed.
3. Today's smartphone cameras do no automatically set... -
Correct Ans: ✅Focal length.
4. What provided the artistic model for photographic portraits? -
Correct Ans: ✅Established traditions in painting.
5. This image demonstrates Alfred Stieglitz's mastery of... -
Correct Ans: ✅Tonal control.
6. What element of Margaret Bourke-White's "Louisville Flood
Victims" might fit Henri Cartier-Bresson's notion of the decisive
moment? - Correct Ans: ✅The figures waiting in front of the
billboard.
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Chapter 9 Examination

  1. What technical element accounts for the visible details seen throughout Jane and Louise Wilson's photograph? - Correct Ans: ✅The photograph's exposure time.
  2. How did Louis-Jacques-Mandes Daguerre's process differ from that of the early camera obscura? - Correct Ans: ✅It was made using a metal plate on which the image was fixed.
  3. Today's smartphone cameras do no automatically set... - Correct Ans: ✅Focal length.
  4. What provided the artistic model for photographic portraits? - Correct Ans: ✅Established traditions in painting.
  5. This image demonstrates Alfred Stieglitz's mastery of... - Correct Ans: ✅Tonal control.
  6. What element of Margaret Bourke-White's "Louisville Flood Victims" might fit Henri Cartier-Bresson's notion of the decisive moment? - Correct Ans: ✅The figures waiting in front of the billboard.
  1. How does Manuel Alvarez Bravo's "Two Pairs of Legs" demonstrate the artistic qualities of straight photography? - Correct Ans: ✅Its formal elements enhance the subject matter.
  2. What invention made the precise details possible in Jacob Rii's

photographs for "How the Other Half Lives"? - Correct Ans: ✅Flash photography.

  1. What was one reason that Ansel Adams photographed

Yosemite? - Correct Ans: ✅To raise environmental awareness.

  1. What common practice does the contemporary photographer Chris Steele-Perkins share with Margaret Bourke- White? - Correct Ans: ✅Documentary photo essays.
  2. How does color function in William Eggleston's "Untitled

(Nehi Bottle on Car Hood)"? - Correct Ans: ✅It adds to the play of formal elements.

  1. What do these two contemporary photographs have in

common? - Correct Ans: ✅Experimental with photographic processes.

  1. What most caused the decreased use of chemical photographic negatives near the end of the twentieth century?
    • Correct Ans: ✅The emergence of new digital technology.

closer to the scene and see how certain elements leave the frame, while others grow larger

  1. In picture composition, what effect offers a depth of perspective, leads the viewer to notice subject contrasts, and plays up distance, making the spatial relationship more obvious? - Correct Ans: ✅overlapping
  2. A huge part of becoming an accomplished photographer

is the ability to _____ what is around you. - Correct Ans: ✅observe

  1. Jacinda's photography instructor offered her some honest feedback about her recent series of photos. She commented that the images have a bit too much uniformity and evenness, although the stability and strength that they offer are impressive. What special composition effect is Jacinda's instructor commenting on? - Correct Ans: ✅symmetry
  2. Shayla is relatively short, standing at only five feet tall. For a series of photos that she is working on called "Neighborhoods and Communities," she has decided to take all of her photos while standing on top of a ladder. What aspect of composition is Shayla playing with by doing this? - Correct Ans: ✅perspective
  3. Jonah wants to avoid wasting space in the photographs of his brother's birthday party décor that he is taking. What would

be an effective technique for Jonah to use to ensure that he doesn't waste space? - Correct Ans: ✅zoom in to include more of the subject and less of the not-as-necessary background

  1. What is the first secret to excellent composition? -

Correct Ans: ✅don't waste space

  1. Phoebe is making use of radial composition in her recent photography project with elements running both side to side and up and down. What kind of feeling is created by using this effect? - Correct Ans: ✅excited, full feeling
  2. Jake is taking photos of his neighbor's home to help them list and sell the house. It is important to have a wide variety of photos to choose from, so he is taking multiple shots of each room—some from the doorways, some from floor-level, some from up above, and some from a corner of the room. What is Jake playing around with as he photographs each room? - Correct Ans: ✅angles
  3. Which profession taught us to place a frame within a

frame? - Correct Ans: ✅painters

  1. Question Janice is at a park standing in front of two big boulders with diagonal lines leading down to the mulch at her feet. When viewers are looking at this image, what will their eyes likely follow? - Correct Ans: ✅the silhouette of the rocks to the center point of her face