Intermediate Photography Lesson 1 Quiz | Test Your Knowledge

Switch to a smaller aperture to let in less light

Use positive exposure compensation to brighten the exposure

Switch to a higher ISO and keep the same settings

Change to spot metering and meter off the bright window

Your lens is fogging up from the cold temperature

Your camera's meter is trying to make the bright snow into a middle gray tone

Your white balance is set incorrectly for outdoor conditions

The snow is reflecting too much UV light into your sensor

The image is overexposed and you are losing highlight detail

The image is well exposed with good shadow detail

The image is underexposed and most of the tones are dark

The white balance is shifted toward the cool end of the spectrum

The camera is metering the entire scene, including the large dark areas, and adding too much exposure

The spotlight is too bright for your camera's sensor to handle

Your ISO is set too high for the lighting conditions

The camera's autofocus is locking onto the dark background instead

Exposure compensation produces sharper images than manual mode

It lets you quickly override the meter's decision while still benefiting from automatic metering

It automatically brackets your exposures for HDR processing

It allows you to shoot at wider apertures than manual mode permits

Your camera's sensor is malfunctioning and needs to be recalibrated

The scene has more dynamic range than your camera can capture in a single exposure

You need to increase your ISO to fill in the middle tones

Your lens is creating excessive vignetting around the frame edges

Placing your subject on the right side of the frame for better composition

Deliberately overexposing slightly to capture more tonal data, then correcting in post-processing

Using the right-hand dial on your camera to set exposure manually

Shooting with the light source positioned to the right of your subject

Apply negative exposure compensation to darken the image

Switch to a faster shutter speed to reduce light

Turn off autofocus so the camera does not adjust exposure

Increase your aperture to f/16 for more depth of field

When shooting evenly lit landscapes with consistent brightness across the scene

When the most important part of your scene is much brighter or darker than its surroundings

When you are shooting in fully automatic mode and want the camera to decide

When photographing large groups of people in even lighting conditions

To create three artistic variations with different color temperatures

To ensure you capture at least one usable exposure in a tricky lighting situation, or to combine them later for extended dynamic range

To test whether your camera's meter is accurate by comparing the three results

To produce three identical images that can be stacked to reduce noise