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1. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
Broad lighting
sensor
Metamerism
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

2. What is a derivative file?
Butterfly lighting
aperture diameter
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
A RAW file that has been altered

3. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
The impression human vision gives
In the middle
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.
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

4. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?
Shutter-priority
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
3:1 or 4:1
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.

5. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
flat - low contrast light
Add cyan
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

6. 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?
Dynamic range
In the middle
Aperture-priority
One stop less

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

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8. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Follow focus
JPEG
Add blue

9. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Yellow
Variations command
Flat lighting
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

10. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Add magenta
256
ISO

11. 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?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
8 stops
1 1/3 stops
Very wide at about 180 degrees

12. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Infrared
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

13. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Metadata
Add magenta
aperture diameter
Shutter-Priority

14. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
One stop
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Lasso tool

15. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Cyan
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

16. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Black (0)
Cyan
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
A RAW file that has been altered

17. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Lasso tool
Yellow
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Add magenta

18. A histogram shows what in an image?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
four times more
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
High Dynamic Range

19. What are the effects of high side lighting?
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.
International Organization for Standardization
High Dynamic Range
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

20. Contrast measures what in a print?
The difference between light and dark.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Contrast
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors

21. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
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.
Variations command
stopped down
flat - low contrast light

22. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
International Organization for Standardization
One stop
8 bits
A high contrast image

23. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Convex
Lower
Blown highlights
RAID system

24. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
1 1/3 stops
Shutter-priority
One stop
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

25. What is the inverse square law?
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).
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 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.
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.

26. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Use and adjustment layer
Levels adjustment

27. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?
Add green
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.
Bit
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

28. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Total number of pixels
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
White (255)

29. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Fisheye
Add blue
Reciprocal relationship
Infrared

30. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
It increases
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

31. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
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.
Infrared
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
sRGB

32. What do TTL systems react to?
Aperture
Infinity
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Convex

33. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
Butterfly lighting
All colors
Flat lighting
flat - low contrast light

34. Perspective is affected by what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Infinity
Aperture
lens-to-subject distance

35. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Dynamic range
sensor
1/250th

36. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Because you can move in close to the subject
Aperture-Priority
Fisheye
5 -000 Kelvin

37. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
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.
Lasso tool
One stop

38. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
The difference between light and dark.
5 -000 Kelvin
Depth of field

39. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
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).
A new layer
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Fisheye

40. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
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.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

41. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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42. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
flat - low contrast light
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Infinity

43. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
JPEG
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).
Glossy paper
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

44. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Fair Use
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Depth of field

45. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
8 stops
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
1 1/3 stops

46. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
Aperture
Half as much light
A high contrast image
Actual Pixel view

47. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
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.
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
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.
Lower

48. 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?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Shutter-priority
8 bits
sRGB

49. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
Yellow
Shutter-Priority
Reflected light meter
Black (0)

50. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.
Front lighting
Incident light meter
Fisheye
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

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