SUBJECT: FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY

1. It is the process of reduction in which exposed silver halides are

reduced into metallic silver. - DEVELOPMENT
2. An intermediate bath between the developer and the fixer. It is usually
a combination of water plus acetic acid or just plain water. It function is
to prevent the contamination of two chemicals. - STOP BATH
3. It is the process of removing unexposed silver halide remaining in the
emulsion after the first stage of development of the latent image. It is
known as “hypo and its purpose are to harden the gelatin emulsion on
the film, and to dissolve out all the unexposed and the undeveloped
silver halide in it. - FIXATION
4. It is a Reducer or developing agent. - ELON / HYDROQUINONE
5. It is use as preservative in the Development process. – SODIUM
SULFITE
6. It is use as accelerator in the chemical processes. – SODIUM
CARBONATE
7. It is a Dissolving agent in the fixer solution. - HYPO / SODIUM
THIASULPHATE
8. Chemical use as neutralizer. – BORIC ACID, ACETIC ACID
9. Use as Hardener in the fixing solution. – POTASSIUM ALUM
10. It is a picture of small object taken through a microscope and
generally has a magnification of more than 50 times. The art of
photographing minute objects when magnified by means of a
microscope and enlarged from 10 times and up. –
PHOTOMICROGRAPHY
11. This is sensitive to ultraviolet and blue bright only. –
ORTHOCHROMATIC
12. It is sensitive to all colors particularly red and red light. –
PANCHROMATIC
13. It is placed between the emulsion and the plastic base of a film
to prevent whatever light that passed through the emulsion and
reflected by the base back to the emulsion which forms a halo effect. It
is designed to hold back the light and prevent halation. – ANTI-
HALATION BACKING
14. What is the equivalent of ASA 25 in DIN Rating? - DIN 15
15. It is given to negative or non-reversal film. – COLOR
16. It has a slow speed, and it is suited for contact printing. –
CHLORIDE PAPER
17. It consists of crystal of light sensitive compounds (silver nitrate)
evenly distributed throughout plastic base material. Consisting of light-
sensitive silver salts in a gelatin medium and used to coat
photographic films and papers. _____ is that light-sensitive silver salts
in a gelatin medium coated on all photographic films and papers. –
EMULSION
18. This refers to the size of the metallic silver grains that formed
after development of an exposed film. – GRANULARITY
19. It refers to the AMERICAL STANDARDS ASSOCIATION, expressed
in arithmetical value system. The speed ratings numbers are directly
proportional to the sensitivity of the material. – ASA
20. A lens defect which is the inability to focus both horizontal and
vertical plane at the same timelines running different directions.
Inabilities of the lens to focus lines running in different direction like for
example a cross. – ASTIGMATISM LENS
21. It has a fast speed and is recommended for projection printing
and enlarging. – BROMIDE PAPER
22. It refers to the absence of all colors in the spectrum. – BLACK
23. It refers to the present of all colors in the spectrum. What is the
strongest light? – WHITE
24. It refers to the inability to focus all the different colors of light on
film at the same time. Inability of the lens to focus on colors. –
CHROMATIC ABERRATION
25. Also referred to as lateral spherical aberration, it is a lens defects
in which the rays enter the lens obliquely. Known as lateral spherical
aberration. A spot of light appears to have a tail rather like a comet. –
COMA
26. It is the remoteness or distance measured from the nearest to
the farthest object in apparent sharp focus when the lens set of focus
is at a particular distance. The distance between the nearest object
and the object farthest from the camera that both appear in focus. The
distance between the nearest object that appears to be focus when the
lens is focus on infinity. – DEPTH OF FIELD
27. A natural light in which the object casts a deep and uniform
shadow. In _______, the subjects will produce a strong shadow, because
the source of Light is not covered, and the objects or subjects appear
glossy in open space due to direct sunlight and reflected lights coming
from the sky which act as a reflector. – BRIGHT SUNLIGHT
28. It refers to Deutche Industri Normen Rating, expressed in
Logarithmic value system. In this system, an increase of three degrees
doubles the sensitivity of the film. – DIN RATING
29. A form of natural light in which objects in open space casts no
shadows. In ____, the sun is totally covered by thick clouds. No shadow
are cast due to the uniform illumination of lights around the subjects in
open space. – DULL SUNLIGHT
30. A light sensitive material that is placed inside a camera to store
any image the camera focuses. It contains minute grains of silver
halide suspended in animal gelatin and coated on celluloid material. A
light sensitized material that records an image. It is a sheet of plastic
(cellulose acetate) coated with emulsion containing light-sensitive
silver halide salts with variable crystal size salt that determine the
sensitivity, contrast and resolution of the film. A cellulose tape
embedded with sensitized solution capable of recording mages thru
light. - FILM
31. A colored gelatin or medium which absorbs or transmits
differentially light rays passing through it. – FILTER
32. It is a distance measured from the optical center of the lens to
the film plane when the lens set of focus is set at infinity position. –
FOCAL PLANE
33. It serves to support the emulsion layer of the film. Provide
support for the emulsion. – BASE
34. It refers to the sensitivity of the film to wavelength or color. –
SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY
35. It refers to silver halides which are light sensitive and
impregnated in the emulsion exists as small crystals and upon
development are converted to pure silver granules. – GRAIN SIZE
36. It refers to the Potassium Alum that solidifies the gelatin of the
sensitized materials which was soften in the developing solution. –
HARDENING AGENT
37. It refers to the sensitivity of the film to light. Light sensitivity of
the film is also known as. – FILM SPEED
38. Lenses with larger apertures are also described as ______. –
FASTER
39. Lenses with smaller aperture requires a slower shutter speed and
the depth of field is _____. – WIDER
40. It refers to the study of physical evidence through a laboratory
work. – CRIMINALISTICS
41. It is the study concerning the production of permanent records of
images by the combined action of light on sensitive surfaces, a
mechanical device, and the chemical process. It is defined as a science
or an art of process of producing images of objects by action of light on
sensitized surface with the aid of an image-forming device known as
camera and the chemical process involved therein. – PHOTOGRAPHY
42. The word Photography originated from the Greek word PHOS
which means _____. – LIGHT
43. A visible form of energy that radiates in waves of different
length. – LIGHT
44. A black box scaled against Light with a piece of film in one end
and a hole in the other end to let certain amount of light to get in and
strike the chemically sensitized material. A light proof box with a
means of forming an image, holding a sensitized material, and
regulating the amount of light that enters the camera at a given time.
– CAMERA
45. The process of converting the latent image into a visible and
permanent image. – CHEMICAL PROCESS
46. The birth year of photography. – 1839
47. He coined the word Photography. – SIR JOHN HERSCHEL
48. A founder of Royal society who reported that silver chloride
turned dark under exposure, but he appeared to believe that it was
caused by exposure to the air, rather than to light. – ROBERT BOYLE
49. He discovered that white light is composed of different colors. –
ISAAC NEWTON
50. He achieved that first photographic image with camera obscura.
However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later
faded. – JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE
51. He discovered a way of developing photographic plates, a
process which greatly reduced the exposure time from eight hours
down to half an hour. – LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE
52. The first photographic process. A photographic process where
developer would polish a sheet of silver platted copper, treat it with
fumes that made its surface light- sensitive, expose it in a camera for
as long as was judged to be necessary in order to create the image. –
DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS
53. The first negative-positive process making possible the first
multiple copies. – CALOTYPE PROCESS
54. This process reduced the exposure time from half an hour to two
or three seconds of light exposure. – COLLODION PROCESS
55. He invented the flexible, paper-based photographic film. –
GEORGE EASTMAN
56. It is otherwise known as Instant Photos or One Step Photography.
The chief attribute of this camera is its ability to deliver a complete
processed print almost immediately after exposure. This camera is
restricted in its uses but is ideal in instant photograph when there is no
requirement for enlargement. A camera that is restricted in its uses but
is ideal in instant photograph where there is no requirement for
enlargements. – POLAROID
57. It is mounted over the opening at the front of the camera body.
Its function is to produce an image on the film at the back of the
camera by gathering and focusing the rays of light from the object. A
mechanism or system which converges or diverges light passing thru it
to form images. – LENS
58. The light-gathering power of the lens is indicated by ______. – F-
NUMBER
59. It holds the film in place at the back of the camera. It is designed
to hold the film flat so that the image produced by the lens will be
sharp over the whole picture area. – FILM HOLDER
60. It helps the photographer see the precise arena that will be
photographed when he trips the shutter. – VIEW FINDER
61. These are essentially carved pieces of glass or other transparent
materials used to refract rays of light so as to form an image of an
object on a photographic film. – PHOTOGRAPHIC LENS
62. The speed of the lens is expressed in terms of its ______. The hole
or opening in a camera lens through which light through which light
passes to expose the film. A small opening in a camera usually circular
in shape and usually variables in the form iris diaphragm that regulates
the intensity of light which passses through the lens. – APERTURE
63. The combination of blue and green light will produce what color?
- CYAN
64. In a stake out surveillance photography, where the photographer
cannot get close to the subject, what kind of lens rust be used? A lens
which has a focal length equal to more than twice the diagonal of the
negative material. Angle of view is 45 degrees. – TELEPHOTO LENS
65. How many parts does a camera generally have, with all other
parts treated as accessories? – SEVEN
66. The lens opening also known as the relative aperture is the
indicator for light transmitting capability of the lens. Which lens
opening will admit more light to pass through its medium? – F2.8
67. What contraption or device is used to block the path of light
passing through the lens exposing the sensitized materials? A device
that enables light to enter through the lens for a small or long period of
time to enhance the exposure of photographic film. It is an adjustable
mechanism that regulates the amount of light reaching the film by
varying the length of time, and it is consider as the door of the camera.
– SHUTTER
68. The light from the pinhole will form. – AN INVERTED IMAGE
69. What is the process of converting the exposed image on the film
into the actual image? -DEVELOPING
70. When light passes through an object, it is said to be? –
TRANSMITTED
71. The smallest and the simplest type of camera, It is known as
Instamatic camera or Point and Shoot camera. – VIEW FINDER CAMERA
72. A type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal
length. – TLR (TWIN LENS RELFEX CAMERA)
73. It is a wavelength emitted by the sun which cannot be seen,
though we can feel it in our bodies as warmth or heat. The art or
process of photographing or recording unseen objects by the naked
eye having a wavelength of 700 nanometer – 1,000 nanometer. –
INFRARED / INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY
74. It is another form of light that we cannot see, but we know about
it because it tans our skin in summer. Photographic rays having a
wavelength of from 30-400 mm. – ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT
75. The speed of light measured in a vacuum is approximately
______? – 186, 281 MILES/SEC – 299,792.5 KM/SEC
76. The complete range of electromagnetic radiation is called ___. In
the principle of light this shows the range of radiant energy that also
shows their wavelengths. -ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
77. The primary colors are: - RED, BLUE, GREEN
78. Colors made by combining the primary colors are called. –
SECONDARY COLORS
79. When light passes from one medium to another such as from air
to water it is bent, and this bending is called. The change of direction
of light that passes through an object or material. The bending of light
when passing from one medium to another. – REFRACTION
80. It is the bouncing back of light upon hitting an object or material.
It is the deflection or bouncing back of light when it hits a surface.
Maria turn on a flashlight in a room full of mirrors, she observed that
light is bouncing from various mirror. Maria observed? – REFLECTION
81. The maximum usable aperture of a lens is usually specified as
the focal ration or f-number. – TRUE
82. The lower the f-number, the more light per unit area is delivered
in the focal plane. – TRUE
83. The focal length determines the. The amount of area visible
when looking through a lens. It is determined by the focal length of the
lens. – ANGLE OF VIEW
84. Lenses with larger apertures are also described as being faster. –
TRUE
85. Lenses with larger maximum apertures provide significantly
brighter viewfinder images. – TRUE
86. He discovered the use of Hydroquinone as a developing agent. –
WILLIAM ABNEY
87. In ______, the sun is covered by thin clouds and the shadow
appears bluish because of the decrease of light falling on the subjects
in open space. – HAZY SUNLIGHT
88. He was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the
co-author of the Polaroid Corporation. His Polaroid instant camera,
which went on sale in late 1948, made it possible for a picture to be
taken and developed in 60 seconds or less. – EDWIN HERBERT LAND
89. The process of taking photographs of the alleged suspects in full
length, half-body, right and left side views, and two-quarter views. –
MUGSHOT
90. The character of light to be altered from its colorless into visible
state. – FILTRATION
91. The bending of light when it hits a sharp edge of an opaque
object. – DIFFRACTION
92. Color can be produced by interference of light waves in thin film
like soap bubbles or a film of oil floating in water. – INTERFERENCE
93. The process by which the vibration of light are confined to
definite plane, the speed of light can be measured. – POLARIZATION
94. The nature of light that normally travels in straight line. –
RECTILINEAR
95. This happens when molecules of the fluorescent material absorb
energy at one wavelength and radiate it at another wavelength. –
FLUORESCENCE
96. A simple camera and is little more than a pin hole camera. It has
a lens and shutter. – BOX CAMERA
97. The biggest and the most sophisticated among the different
types of camera. – VIEW CAMERA
98. The difference between what is seen through the view finder and
what is exactly recorded on the film. – PARALLAX
99. Used for landscaping photography. It is easy to use by
encompassing a 120’ 180’ or 360’ view of one exposure. – PANORAMIC
CAMERA
100. It has a shorter focal length than the normal lens and as a result,
it covers a picture angle wider than 60’. – WIDE ANGLE LENS
101. Light passing through it are bended away from each other as if
coming from a point. It is always thinner at the center and thicker at
the sides. – CONCAVE
102. Light passing thru it are bended towards each other on the other
side of the lens meeting at a point. It is always thicker at the center
and thinner at the sides. – CONVEX
103. The image produced by the lens will magnified either less or
more than the center image. - DISTORTION
104. Photoraphic rays passing through the edges of the lens are bent
or refracted more sharply than those passing through the central part
of the lens, thus they come to a focus nearer the lens than those of the
central rays. - SPHERICAL ABERRATION
105. Lens corrected for distortion. - ANASTIGMAT LENS
106. Lens corrected for astigmatism with a higher degree on colors. -
APOCHROMATIC LENS
107. A place where the crime was perpetrated and physical evidence
found thereat. - CRIME SCENE
108. The science which deals with the study of the principles of
photography and the preparation of photographic evidence and its
application to police work. – POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
109. The smaller the aperture, the _____________ the f-number. –
LARGER
110. The smaller the f-number, the ______________ the depth-of-field. –
NARROW
111. The lower the ISO, the ______________ the shutter speed. –
SLOWER
112. The higher the ISO, the _______________ the shutter speed. –
FASTER
113. The slower the shutter speed, the _______the picture produced. –
BRIGHTER
114. Lights with shorter or longer wavelengths. - INVISIBLE LIGHT
115. Objectives of crime scene photography. - IT PRODUCE A
PICTORIAL RECORD OF EVERYTHING REGARDING THE CRIME, IT HELPS
IN KEEPING MEMORIES ACCURATELY
116. Grade of printing paper which provides for sufficient contrast to
compensate for very thin or weak negatives. It is useful in printing
pictures which high contrast is desired. - VELOX NO. 4
117. A lighting technique that shows 3 dimensions. - OBLIQUE
LIGHTING
118. A camera device in which when adjusted it will conform with the
sensitivity of the film to light. - ISO/ ASA/ DIN DIAL
119. The higher the f-stop number, the ____ light will be gathered by
the film. - LESS
120. If you want to show stopped action, what shutter speed should
you used? - FAST
121. If you want to show on your photograph a panned action, what
shutter speed you should used? - FAST
122. Exposure is controlled by the shutter speed and lens aperture.
This statement is _______. - CORRECT
123. This is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in
many cases to focus, the picture. - VIEWFINDER
124. Typically uses a mirror and prism system that permits the
photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be
captured, contrary to
125. Viewfinder cameras where the image could be significantly
different from what will be captured. - SINGLE LENS REFLEX CAMERA
126. The length of time a camera shutter is open when taking a
photograph. - SHUTTER SPEED
127. Another term for Ultra-violet light. - BLACK LIGHT
128. In robbery case. Which is the focus of close up photography? -
FORCIBLE ENTRY
129. Color rays has longer wave length? - RED
130. It refers to the film and photographic paper that is composed of
emulsion containing silver halides suspended in gelatin and coated on
a transparent or Reflective support. - SENSITIZED MATERIAL
131. DIN stands for. - DEUTCHE INDUSTRE NORMEN
132. The inability of the lens to produce the real or true image of an
object in a photograph. - ABERRATION
133. It is a lens defect in shape than sharpness. - DISTORTION
134. This pertains to the distance measured in mm between the
optical center of the lens and the camera sensor where the light
information is recorded. - FOCAL LENGTH
135. Latin name which means “darkroom”. It is the ancestor of the
modern photographic camera. - CAMERA OBSCURA
136. Thinner at the center and thicker at the side and forms the
virtual image on the same side of the lens. - DIVERGING LENS
137. Study of the general practices, methods, and steps in taking
pictures of the crime scene, physical things, and other circumstances
that can be used as criminal evidence or for law enforcement
purposes. - POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
138. An ultra-wide-angle lens that can take in a full 180-degree radius
around it. - FISH EYE LENS
139. A sensitized material often referred to as a cellulose tape or plate
wherein silver salts are suspended for it to be able to record light. -
PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM
140. This lens is thicker at the center and thinner at the side which
can bend the light together and forms the image inversely. - POSITIVE
LENS
141. Lenses that have the ability to focus vertical and horizontal lines
at the same time. - RECTILINEAR LENS
142. A lens with variable focal length and can be adjusted
continuously.- ZOOM LENS
143. This is the section that connects the interchangeable lens to the
camera body. - LENS MOUNT
144. It is the difference between what is seen through the viewfinder
and what is exactly recoded on the film. - PARALLAX
145. A type of a radiant energy which is manifested when we observe
that the light, we can see is just a tiny slice in the middle of the
spectrum. - VISIBLE LIGHT
146. This is manifested by the measurement of how much energy the
light wave carries and tells the intensity or brightness of the light. -
AMPLITUDE
147. Characteristic of light where it is neither passing through or
being reflected back to the source of light. - ABSORBED
148. This It occurs when waves of light separate as they pass the
edge of an opaque material where light bends around and object. -
DIFFRACTION
149. Objects like glass pane, white cloth, white paper or white plastic
is an example of what object? TRANSLUCENT OBJECT
150. A term which means that that only one lens is used for both
viewing the scene and taking photograph of it thereby preventing
parallax. - SINGLE LENS REFLEX CAMERA
151. Mike wants the image of the evidence in the photograph to have
a minimal amount of shadow being projected by the source of light, in
order for him to attain the said result, He needs to use? - DIRECT
LIGHTING
152. Focusing method which is set by numbers that determine the
appropriate depth of field of the photograph. - DISTANCE SCALE
153. Part of film type cameras designed to transfer the expose film to
the other side or to take-up spool and the unexposed film will be the
opposite side of the lens for another exposure. - FILM ADVANCER
154. One major mechanism of the camera that is needed to be
manipulated in photographing objects that are moving very fast. -
SHUTTER SPEED
155. A mechanical device that adjusts and controls the aperture and
enables how much light reaches the film. - DIAPHRAGM
156. Alex wants to photograph the view of the stars in the sky, in
order for him to photograph such view, Alex must set his shutter
speed? - LOWER SPEED
157. A control which is utilized by manipulating the ASA/ISO dial of the
camera. - FILM SPEED CONTROL
158. Intersecting beams of light which is caused by the camera lens
that should be in the focal plane in order to have a sharp image refers
to? - FOCAL POINT
159. Pertains to the overlapping patches of light representing each
patch of light on the subject which represent unsharp image. - CIRCLE
OF CONFUSION
160.