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1. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Aperture-Priority
The impression human vision gives
Lasso tool
Add magenta

2. 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?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
5000K
One stop less

3. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Lasso tool
Infrared
Add green

4. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Metadata
Add magenta

5. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Lasso tool
Cyan
Small light source at an angle to the subject

6. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
3:1 or 4:1
Aperture-Priority
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
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.

7. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Short lighting
Depth of field
stopped down

8. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
3200 Kelvin
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Zoom lens
hue/saturation adjustment layer

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

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10. Printers use what set of colors?
Bit
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
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.

11. What is dodging?
Parallax
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

12. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Shutter-Priority
1 1/3 stops
Because you can move in close to the subject
Add magenta

13. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
9
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)
Aperture and shutter
Cyan

14. 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.
A new layer
Shutter-priority
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.

15. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Aperture
Glossy paper
Small light source at an angle to the subject

16. What do TTL systems react to?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
JPEG
Use and adjustment layer
8 bits

17. Aperture controls what?
Infinity
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Magenta

18. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?
1 1/3 stops
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Incident light meter

19. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
A raster image
One stop
Additive (R - G - B)

20. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Actual Pixel view
White (255)
Blue
Add red

21. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Dynamic range
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.
JPEG
Convex

22. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
four times more

23. What is a flag?
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
8 stops
A new layer
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

24. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Butterfly lighting
Additive (R - G - B)
Blue

25. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
Actual Pixel view
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
lens-to-subject distance
It increases

26. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
Half as much light
Short lighting.
RAID system
9

27. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
The impression human vision gives
Depth of field
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.
Total number of pixels

28. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

29. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Metadata

30. What is burning?
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Infrared
One stop

31. What is an element and where is it found?
Soft proofing
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

32. Focal length controls what?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
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)
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
8 stops

33. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Actual Pixel view
Reciprocal relationship
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

34. 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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35. Resolution refers to what?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Reflected light meter
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Small light source at an angle to the subject

36. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Half as much light
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
stopped down

37. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).
8 bits
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
International Organization for Standardization
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

38. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Metadata
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

39. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
One stop less
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
A high contrast image

40. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Levels adjustment
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

41. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?
lens-to-subject distance
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Actual Pixel view
Contrast

42. 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
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.
Glossy paper
Yellow

43. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
One stop
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Zoom lens

44. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
flat - low contrast light
Infrared
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
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.

45. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?
A raster image
Soft proofing
Use and adjustment layer
Lasso tool

46. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
One stop less
Infinity
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)

47. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Lower
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.
In the middle
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

48. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
Aperture and shutter
JPEG
Snoot
Aperture

49. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
Cyan
A raster image
four times more
Glossy paper

50. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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