Can you get the perfect score on this photography quiz?

Dunja Djudjic

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

Being a photographer packs a whole lot of knowledge. You need to know your gear, composition, lighting, and a bunch of rules that you should follow (and then break). Not to mention photo editing programs, color theory, and some theory and history. But that’s why we love photography, right – there’s always something to learn and explore.

If you want to check your knowledge, we have a quiz for you. It lets you test yourself and see how much you know your theory, your cameras and lenses, your lighting, and even a little bit of history. So, take a look, test your knowledge, and most importantly: have fun!

BTW, the questions change each time you take the quiz, so you can take it multiple times.

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By the Sunny 16 Rule, on a clear, sunny day you should:

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An X16 neutral density (ND) filter…

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What does the shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+R do in Photoshop?

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What does ASA denote in film photography?

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What causes a black line in the bottom of your photo when shooting with flash?

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What is zone focusing?

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If you go above your camera’s sync speed:

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What tool can you not use in Lightroom to adjust brightness and contrast in your photos?

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38. What is the crop factor for Canon EF-S bodies?

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What shot can be enhanced with a polarizer filter (CPL)?

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What does the shortcut X do in Lightroom?

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Your shot will be shaky if…

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Who was the person who took the first photo ever?

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When shooting stars, what approximate shutter speed to use to avoid streaks?

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An aperture of f/8 is

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Which keyboard shortcut do you use to change the overlay grid modes in Lightroom?

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Which one is caused by a rolling shutter?

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What does the symbol in the red circle mean?

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What does the trichrome process allow you to do?

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If your light was one meter away from your subject and now it’s two meters away:

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What tool can you use instead of a Pencil tool in Photoshop?

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What does this histogram mean?

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ISO 100 is how many stops different from ISO 640?

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Which letter marks the aperture in cine lenses?

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What happens when you change the aperture from f/16 to f/8

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What is moiré?

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What settings does the camera’s Program mode figure out for you?

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What does the lens compression do when you use a telephoto lens?

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What is the formula of the Inverse Square Law?

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What is the general rule for the shutter speed when filming video?

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On a parfocal lens, you can…

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What is pentaprism?

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The lighting that creates a triangle of light on a subject’s cheek is called…?

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What do we call the phenomenon in the picture?

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Complete the sequence: 5.6, 8, 11, ??

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What’s the most prominent feature of anamorphic lenses?

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Shooting at 1/500s f/11 yields the same exposure as shooting at

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Which aperture obtains the shallowest depth of field?

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What are the elements of the exposure triangle?

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What do luminosity masks do in Lightroom and Photoshop?

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What do we call the distance between the lens and the image sensor?

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When was the first digital camera introduced?

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Which temperature yields the “bluest” light?

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Which tool lets you remove unwanted objects in Photoshop?

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When do you have to calculate hyperfocal distance?

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37. What is “Crop Factor”?

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You seem to know a little photography-related things, but a long road is still ahead of you. Keep on shooting and keep on learning!

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Still some areas that need improvement, but your knowledge is pretty good overall. Well done!

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Dunja Djudjic

Dunja Djudjic

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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7 responses to “Can you get the perfect score on this photography quiz?”

  1. udi tirosh Avatar

    Got a perfect round score :)

  2. Pierre Lagarde Avatar

    Pretty useful to look for gaps. Helps me in learning on some points I had misconception about.
    Though, it looks like my first need is some more english lessons :D .
    Thank you.

  3. Mathieu Carbou Avatar

    I don’t understand what is considered the right answer for the question “What does this histogram mean?“… The blue triangle in the histogram clearly means that highlights are clipped.

    1. Jurgen Lobert Avatar
      Jurgen Lobert

      And for all practical purposes, it is almost perfectly exposed, especially if it was a night photo…

  4. Trino Pam Avatar
    Trino Pam

    This was fun!???

  5. John Beatty Avatar
    John Beatty

    fun

  6. ShishkaBerry Avatar
    ShishkaBerry

    I got 3 questions about lightroom in a row lmao, I use capture one so I’m doomed to fail this from the start ?