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1. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
Cyan
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.
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
9

2. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Soft proofing
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.
International Organization for Standardization

3. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Parallax
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Levels adjustment
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

4. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
sRGB
5 -000 Kelvin
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

5. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
It increases
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

6. 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?
Shutter-Priority
Shutter-priority
Levels adjustment
sensor

7. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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8. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Shutter-Priority

9. What are luminance and illuminance?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
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)
5 -000 Kelvin

10. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Fisheye
sensor

11. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Variations command
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

12. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
Follow focus
Magenta
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Broad lighting

13. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
Additive (R - G - B)
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
four times more
JPEG

14. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
Aperture-priority
9
Convex
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

15. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
8 bits
A mirror and pentaprism

16. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
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.
Infinity
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Flat lighting

17. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
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.
Incident light meter
Short lighting.
RAID system

18. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
sensor
Broad lighting
A mirror and pentaprism
No

19. What is the best color profile for web images?
sRGB
Very wide at about 180 degrees
All colors
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors

20. What is a derivative file?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Aperture-Priority
A RAW file that has been altered

21. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Actual Pixel view
Short lighting

22. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Cyan
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Add cyan

23. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
With the Main at 45 degrees to one side and 45 degrees above subject - it is a classic angle for portraits. It seems natural and flattering and models the face into 3D form.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

24. What would you use an ICC profile for?
Infrared
8 bits
Cyan
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

25. Contrast measures what in a print?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
The difference between light and dark.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

26. What is the effect of front lighting?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
The difference between light and dark.
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
sensor

27. What is the inverse square law?
One stop
A RAW file that has been altered
256
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.

28. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Aperture and shutter
Aperture-Priority
A mirror and pentaprism
Short lighting.

29. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Short lighting
flat - low contrast light
Aperture and shutter
Cyan

30. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
8 stops
stopped down
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Follow focus

31. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
Infinity
Black (0)
Blue & Green
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

32. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
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
ISO

33. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Total number of pixels
Aperture
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

34. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
Front lighting
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.
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
5 -000 Kelvin

35. What are IPTC fields used for?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Add magenta

36. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Metadata
Aperture-Priority
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

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

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38. 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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39. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Snoot
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
No

40. What does a neutral density filter do?
Add yellow
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
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.

41. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
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.
No
5 -000 Kelvin
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

42. 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?
A mirror and pentaprism
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Aperture-priority
Total number of pixels

43. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Magenta
Shutter speed & aperture
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.

44. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?
8 stops
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
One stop
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

45. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
lens-to-subject distance
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
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)
Lasso tool

46. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Parallax
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
A change in illumination

47. What is TTL?
Half as much light
A high contrast image
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

48. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Cyan

49. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.
Lasso tool
Snoot
Black (0)
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

50. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
JPEG
Infrared
Magenta
sensor

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