Chapter 14 True/False Self-Quiz

. Frenchman Louis Daguerre is credited as the father of modern photography.

. Even though digital photography is more expensive than film photography, news organizations have adopted it because images can be captured, edited and put into production faster.

. Photojournalists always have had the ability to manipulate photographs.

. Editing images that will appear in the news is always unethical.

. Photographs are the central element of the page design on websites.

. Photographs can dramatize or emphasize specific parts of a story, or they can tell the entire story.

. Digital photography has replaced film photography at almost all news organizations.

. Photographs printed in newspapers or magazines need higher resolution than those that are displayed on a website.

. Reporters shooting photographs that may appear only online can capture images in small format because there is no need to capture and store large files when they will appear only on the web.

. The best journalistic shots are from straight on.

. Photojournalists should avoid taking pictures of people in motion.

. Cropping a photo simply means cutting out unwanted background.

. There is no rule for how long a video segment in a Web story package should run.

. When recording a video, the zoom function should be used as sparingly as possible.

. When recording video for the Web, journalists should never us wide angle shots.

. Reporters writing for the Web need a wider array of tools than those who write only for print.

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