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Test Your Portrait Photography Knowledge With This Quiz

Ritika Khandelwal

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Being worth the title of a photographer takes a lot of practice and knowledge. Here's a series of questions to test your Portrait Photography knowledge. Take this quiz and see how much you know. GOOD LUCK!
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The biggest key to a great portrait is your subject. Making the subject comfortable with you, plays a very important role in creating a successful portrait photograph.
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A gel is a transparent colored material that is used in theater, photography, videography and cinematography to color light and for color correction.
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A telephoto lens increases focal length and allows you to focus on a subject from far away with accurate perspective.
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Bokeh, which translates as “blur” is one of the most popular subjects in photography. The reason why it is so popular is because it is the aesthetic quality which makes photographs visually appealing.
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A candid photograph is a photograph captured without creating a posed appearance. However, these portraits are unplanned.
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A wide angle lens is ideal for landscapes, architecture, interiors and real estate as this showcase much of the surroundings.
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Props are an important part of portraiture and it helps enhance the subject.
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A longer focal length brings the background closer to your subject and create more dramatic background blur.
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In environmental portrait photography, the environment is as important to the image as the person.
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Surrealism is an artistic style that has a dream-like element. You can’t photograph something that doesn’t exist. Therefore, a surreal portrait turns dreams into images.
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Lifestyle photography is a genre of photography that capture portraits which is related to everyday lives and things.
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ISO is an acronym, which stands for International Standards Organization. It is a camera setting that will brighten or darken a photo.
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