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Round One – General photography
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Düsseldorf
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Roy Stryker
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f4 (“dividing the amount of light by half” = doubling it)
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1954
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Brett Rogers
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Dissolve, Darken, Darker Colour, Difference
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DNG - digital negative
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3m (twice as close = 4 times brighter)
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Freeman
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Calotype
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Round Two – Name the photographer
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Annie Liebovitz
2.
Cindy Sherman
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Andreas Gursky
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Weegee (or Arthur Fellig)
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Rankin (or John Rankin Waddell)
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Louis Daguerre
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Alfred Stieglitz
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Jeff Wall
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Gregory Crewdson
10.
Spencer Tunick
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Round Four – Name the brand / Spot the ‘shopping
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Nike
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Land Rover
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Benetton
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Opium (Yves-Saint-Laurent)
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Labour Party (because of the red stripe - Conservative version was blue)
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Vietnam - Missing child just to the right of first child on left
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Dali - Extra cat at the bottom
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Beatles - Blue suit is now brown
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Migrant Mother - Colourized - original is black and white
10.
Afghan girl - Flipped horizontally
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Round Six – Name the photographer LEGO
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
2.
Eddie Adams
3.
Robert Capa
4.
Joe Rosenthal
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Martin Elliot
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Neil Armstrong
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Steve McCurry
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Edward Muybridge
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Jeff Widener
10.
Annie Liebovitz
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Round Seven – General photography
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Velvia
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1980
3.
3200K
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Plane crash-landing on the Hudson river
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Trafalgar Square
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Sophie Ristelhueber
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f4 (GN = f-stop * distance; 32 = x * 16, so f2, except GNs are at ISO 100, so add 2 stops)
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Everyone is jumping (hooray!)
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11
10.
In order: Eiffel Tower, Paris; Trafalgar Square, London; Tate Modern museum, London;
Big Ben, London; Notre Dame, Paris; The Eye, London; and the Empire State Building,
New York City.
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Round One – General photography
1.
At which school did Bernd and Hilla Becher teach students including
Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth?
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Who was the head of the Farm Security Administration's photography project?
3.
If your f-stop is f5.6, and you want to divide the amount of light coming into your lens by half, what f-stop should you use?
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When did Robert Capa die? (within 2yrs)
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Who is the current director of The Photographers' Gallery?
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In Photoshop there are 4 blending modes beginning with D - name them.
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What is the name of Adobe's universal file format for RAW images?
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If your flash is 6m from your subject, and you want your subject to be four times brighter without changing your aperture, how far away should you put your flash?
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Which photographic process was invented by William Fox Talbot?
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Round Seven – General photography
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What is the name of the ISO 50 slide film made by Fuji, famous for its very saturated colours?
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When was Camera Lucida published? (within 2yrs)
3.
What is the standard temperature of tungsten light, in kelvin?
4.
In January 2009 the Twitpic website crashed as thousands of people tried to view a photograph of which news event?
6.
Who won this year's Deutsche-Börse photography prize?
7.
I've just taken a picture of Brian, using a flash with a guide number of 32. He is 16m away, and he was correctly exposed at ISO 400. What f-stop did I use?
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What is notable about the portraits of photographer Philippe Halsman?
9.
In the famous photo of the workers having lunch on the girder of a New
York building, how many people are there?
10.
According to a 2009 analysis of over 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr, what are the top 7 most-photographed landmarks in the world? Point for each.
Tie Break
How many photos are uploaded to the Flickr sharing website every second?
Answer: 95 (as of 30/05/2010)
Photography Quiz
Round One – General photography
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Photography Quiz
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Photography Quiz
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Photo Festival 2010 – Photography Quiz
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Photo Festival 2010 – Photography Quiz
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Photo Festival 2010 – Photography Quiz
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Photo Festival 2010 – Photography Quiz
Round Seven – General photography
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