university challenge

[donut]

well for the first time ever i got all three bonus questions right . so your three bonus questions are .......on photography

what two word french term denotes a photograph taken with the sun directly behind the subject making it a silhouette against the light source


using a shallow depth of field gives a blurred image that has come to be described with what five letter word originated from Japanese


and finaly which technique involves slowing the shutter speed and following a moving subject as it passes in front of the camera giving it more focus than the background

( ok i know they're not hard , but the cambridge team didnt get any of them right ) the questions are writen exactly as asked.

hands up anyone who didnt get them all right

 

[f1charlie]

I couldn't remember the first one

 

[Musicman]

They weren't that hard, were they?

I surprised myself by getting the composers of waltzes all correct too.

 

[Lynton]

contre jour, bokeh, panning? Next.

 

[Mikesphotaes]

Me too!

 

[Marc]

Even I got those straight away but, even if you're the most intelligent university student out there, it's unlikely you'll have come across any of those terms if you're not interested in photography.

 

[gramps]

I was concentrating on reading a post when SWMBO said, "Come on then what's the answer?" ... ehh?

 

[modchild]

Didn't know the first one, but then I haven't done French since I left school over 30 years ago and haven't had any official training in the photographic arts, besides that I know what a silhouette is so why confuse anything with another name The other two were easy enough though.

 

[DorsetDude]

Didn't know the first one, but then I haven't done French since I left school over 30 years ago and haven't had any official training in the photographic arts, besides that I know what a silhouette is so why confuse anything with another name The other two were easy enough though.

Contre jour isn't necessarily silhouettes.

 

[Yv]

Didn't know the first one, but then I haven't done French since I left school over 30 years ago and haven't had any official training in the photographic arts, besides that I know what a silhouette is so why confuse anything with another name The other two were easy enough though.

Contre jour - literal translation, against the day - in photographic terms mean shooting against or into the light, but they don't have to be a silhouette. Like this


Streets of Marrakech by Yvonne White - WhiteGoldImages, on Flickr


Oh and yes, I got called to the TV and got all 3 too Although I was amused to hear yet another way to pronounce 'bokeh' from Mr Paxman.

 

[modchild]

Thanks for the explanation, and as they say a picture speaks a 1000 words, YV that photo makes far more sense of Contre jour than any of the googling I've done since my post above.

I've actually got quite a few shots that I've done that are similar to this but I didn't know there was a specific name for the style. So nice to learn, and keep on learning, new stuff all the time due to the forum.

 

[Nod]

Have to say that that shot of Yv's shows some flair. (sic!)

 

[Chris Wilson]

Witless git Nod