Review for Photography Test 1

This test covers the theory and practice of all that we’ve done so far. It should take about 30 minutes to write, but you can take as long as you need.

Topics

• Early Photography - camera obscura, Wedgewood, Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot
• Photograms – use the links on the main index for anything not linked here.
• Developing photo paper – how it works, how you expose it, what the steps are
• Darkroom procedures
• Pinhole cameras - what they are, what is the process of making and using one, what are two advantages (as well as the obvious disadvantages) over normal cameras?

How to Study

• Go over the website and re-read the relevant pages
• Go over the review that we did (developing ). See if you can answer the questions before checking the right answers.
• Think about what you do to expose photo paper (photogram and pinhole), and what you do in the darkroom to develop it. You’re good at it now, so that should help on the test!

Some terms you should understand:

Camera obscura, bitumen plate, heliograph, Daguerreotype, Calotype, Darkroom, photogram, silver nitrate, photo paper, latent image, developer, stop bath, fixer, rinse, enlarger, aperture, safe light, test strip, exposure, pinhole, camera shake, deep depth of field, wide angle

Some processes to explain:

• How to make a photogram
• How to construct & use a pinhole camera that works
• How to correctly expose and develop photo paper

Some typical longer questions (there will be some short and multiple choice too)

• What were some of the main obstacles that had to be overcome in the early 19^th century before good permanent photographic images could be captured and kept?
• What might happen if you skipped the stop bath, or the fixer stage in paper development?
• When and why do we need safe lights?
• Your pinhole image comes out of the developing tank blurry, or all white or all black, or white with black around the edges. What are the probable causes in each of these cases?