Question 6:
(a) List the two categories of light in photography.
(b) Outline any four examples each of the listed categories of light in 6(a).
(c) Enumerate any five functions of a lens.
Observation
This was a straight forward question the few candidates’ that responded to it faired well. The candidates were expected to provide the following answers in order to score good marks:
(a) - memory card/compact flash card/SD card
- direct USB transfer
- via card reader
- wifi
- Bluetooth
(b) - Photo Director
- Picassa
- Photo shop
- Paint shop/corel draw
- Photo paint
- Photo snap
- Photo grid
- GMP
- Microsoft Paint
- Windows picture manager
- I- photo editor
- Photo scape
- Nikon NX
- Adobe CX
- Fireworks
- Photo mechanic
- Capture one
- PicsArt
- Microsoft photos
- ACSDE
- Lightroom
- Photo suite
- Ulead Photo Impact
- Ulead Photo Express
(c) - cropping
- scaling
- re-sizing/cropping/framing
- colour adjustment/correction
- brightness adjustment/correction
- tone/contrast adjustment/correction
- background adjustment
- red- eye removal
- filter effect
- cloning
- sharpening
- noise reduction
- texture adjustment