Intermediate Photography Lesson 2 Quiz | Test Your Knowledge

Intermediate Photography: Lesson 2 Quiz

Your photos of a running dog keep coming out blurry even though your shutter speed is 1/1000s. You are using single-shot autofocus (AF-S). What is the most likely cause?

Your shutter speed is too slow for the speed of the dog

AF-S locks focus once and does not track moving subjects, so the dog moves out of the focus plane after the lock

Your ISO is too high, causing noise that looks like blur

The dog is too close to the camera for autofocus to work properly

You are photographing a portrait and want to focus precisely on the subject's nearest eye. What is the best focus area mode to use?

Wide-area autofocus so the camera can find the face automatically

Single-point autofocus placed directly on the eye

Zone autofocus covering the upper half of the frame

Manual focus with no autofocus assistance at all

What is the main benefit of back button focus for photographers who shoot a mix of still and moving subjects?

It makes the camera autofocus faster than using the shutter button

It separates the focus and shutter functions so you can lock focus for still subjects or hold the button for continuous tracking without changing any settings

It allows the camera to use a more accurate focus algorithm

It reduces shutter lag by removing the focus step from the shutter button press

You are trying to focus on a small bird perched behind a chain-link fence, but the autofocus keeps locking onto the fence instead. What is the best solution?

Use a smaller aperture so both the fence and bird are in focus

Switch to manual focus and focus on the bird yourself

Increase your ISO to give the autofocus system more light to work with

Switch to continuous autofocus mode so it keeps searching past the fence

A friend shows you a photo where the subject's body is sharp but the face is slightly soft. They used AF-S and the focus-and-recompose technique. What likely went wrong?

The camera's autofocus calibration is off and needs professional adjustment

After locking focus on the face, recomposing the frame shifted the focal plane forward to the body, especially at a wide aperture

The subject moved between the focus lock and the shutter release

The lens produced more distortion at the edges of the frame where the face ended up

What is zone focusing, and when is it most useful?

Using the camera's zone autofocus area mode to track subjects within a selected zone

Pre-setting your focus to a fixed distance and using a small aperture so everything within a range is sharp, commonly used in street photography

Dividing the scene into zones and taking a separate photo of each zone to combine later

Setting the camera to focus only on subjects within a specific distance range using depth-of-field preview

You are photographing in a very dimly lit restaurant. Your camera's autofocus hunts back and forth and cannot lock onto your subject. What should you do?

Keep half-pressing the shutter button until the autofocus finally locks

Switch to manual focus and use focus peaking or magnification to focus accurately

Move to a brighter location since autofocus will not work in dim light

Switch from single-point AF to wide-area AF so the camera has more options

You notice that images you took handheld at 1/30s with a 50mm lens are slightly blurry, but your autofocus confirmed it had locked on. What is the most likely cause?

The autofocus locked onto the wrong subject in the scene

Camera shake from handholding at a shutter speed too slow for the focal length

The lens has a front-focus or back-focus calibration issue

Image stabilization caused a micro-vibration during the exposure

When shooting a landscape and you want maximum sharpness from foreground to background in a single exposure, where should you focus?

On the most distant point in the scene, like the horizon

At the hyperfocal distance for your focal length and aperture, which maximizes the zone of acceptable sharpness

On the closest foreground element to ensure near-sharpness

Exactly in the center of the frame regardless of what is there

Your camera has eye-detection autofocus. In which scenario would it be least reliable?

A single person facing the camera in good light

A crowded scene where multiple people are at different distances and you want to focus on a specific person in the group

A head-and-shoulders portrait with the subject looking slightly to the side

A portrait of someone wearing clear eyeglasses

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