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1. What are luminance and illuminance?






2. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?






3. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed - what mode are you working in?






4. An incident-exposure reading for a fair-skinned subject reads f/8 - 1/125th at 100 ISO. The next subject is very dark skinned. What is the proper exposure for the second subject?

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5. If your print will be viewed mostly under window light - what is the suggested Kelvin temperature of the lights you should use to evaluate your print?






6. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






7. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?






8. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?






9. What is gamut?






10. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






11. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






12. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






13. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?






14. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






15. What light source has the highest color temperature?






16. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?






17. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?






18. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






19. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?






20. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






21. What is a Bit?






22. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






23. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






24. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?






25. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?






26. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?






27. What is burning?






28. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






29. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






30. What is dodging?






31. Aperture controls what?






32. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






33. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






34. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






35. Contrast measures what in a print?






36. What is a flag?






37. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?






38. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?






39. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






40. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






41. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






42. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






43. What does ISO stand for?






44. Panning does what?






45. A magic wand tool is used for what?






46. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?






47. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?






48. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






49. What does side lighting emphasize?






50. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.







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