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1. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Use and adjustment layer
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Add blue

2. The term "ISO speed" is used to describe what?

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3. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.
sensor
Glossy paper
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Zoom lens

4. Printers use what set of colors?
Add blue
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

5. Contrast measures what in a print?
Short lighting
The difference between light and dark.
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Front lighting

6. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Contrast
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Fisheye
Metadata

7. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Because you can move in close to the subject
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
9

8. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Yellow
Shutter-Priority
Blue
A high contrast image

9. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Blown highlights
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Because you can move in close to the subject
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

10. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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11. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
One stop less
Yellow
Actual Pixel view
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

12. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Snoot
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

13. What does a neutral density filter do?
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Shutter-priority
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

14. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
Aperture
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

15. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.
A change in illumination
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
Soft proofing

16. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
5 -000 Kelvin
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
four times more

17. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
A high contrast image
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
A change in illumination
Blue

18. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very light toned scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
In the middle
A mirror and pentaprism
aperture diameter
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

19. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
ISO
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
8 stops
Aperture and shutter

20. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
A new layer
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
JPEG
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

21. What is a Bit?
Snoot
8 stops
No
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.

22. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
All colors
Add red
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Short lighting

23. What is a thyristor?
Soft proofing
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
sRGB

24. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
RAID system
Aperture

25. When buying a lens hood - you should get it in what size relative to the lens?

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26. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
A high contrast image
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
White (255)
Levels adjustment

27. What is dodging?
Follow focus
Variations command
A RAW file that has been altered
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

28. What is a BYTE?
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
aperture diameter
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
RAID system

29. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
1 1/3 stops
Parallax
No
A mirror and pentaprism

30. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.

31. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Metadata
Contrast
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
3200 Kelvin

32. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
9
3200 Kelvin
Add magenta
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

33. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare
Because you can move in close to the subject
In the middle

34. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Blown highlights
A raster image

35. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Metamerism
Short lighting
White (255)
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

36. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
Fisheye
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Bit

37. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very dark scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
ISO
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

38. What are IPTC fields used for?
The impression human vision gives
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Fair Use

39. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture - what mode are you working in?
3:1 or 4:1
Shutter-priority
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
Total number of pixels

40. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Convex
One stop

41. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
In the middle
Because you can move in close to the subject
Dynamic range
High Dynamic Range

42. What are the effects of top lighting?
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

43. Focal length controls what?
Use and adjustment layer
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

44. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Yellow
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
lens-to-subject distance

45. 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?
5000K
High Dynamic Range
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

46. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Actual Pixel view
Yellow

47. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
Levels adjustment
Broad lighting
Short lighting
Because you can move in close to the subject

48. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Aperture-Priority
Cyan
Add blue
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

49. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
sensor
Dynamic range
Total number of pixels
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

50. What is a derivative file?
All colors
Add blue
A RAW file that has been altered
1 1/3 stops