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1. What is the best color profile for web images?
sRGB
Additive (R - G - B)
Yellow
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

2. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
It increases
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
A mirror and pentaprism
Convex

3. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
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)
Reflected light meter
High Dynamic Range
1 1/3 stops

4. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Contrast
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Aperture and shutter
1 1/3 stops

5. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
One stop less
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Dynamic range
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

6. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Cyan
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
5 -000 Kelvin
Infinity

7. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
Broad lighting
It increases
Levels adjustment
RAID system

8. What is gamut?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
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).
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

9. 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?
Aperture-priority
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Add green
Follow focus

10. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Convex
Actual Pixel view
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Butterfly lighting

11. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
Yellow
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

12. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
A raster image
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.
Reciprocal relationship
stopped down

13. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
256
1/250th
High Dynamic Range
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light

14. What is a color profile?
RAID system
Contrast
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).
1 1/3 stops

15. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
1 or 2
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.
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Variations command

16. What is focal length - technically?
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
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.
A RAW file that has been altered
A high contrast image

17. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Metadata
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.
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

18. 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?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Follow focus
5000K

19. What light source has the highest color temperature?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Levels adjustment
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors

20. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
aperture diameter
Black (0)
Follow focus
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

21. What does a neutral density filter do?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Contrast
Follow focus

22. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
A high contrast image
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

23. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Fair Use
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
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.
Fisheye

24. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
Aperture-Priority
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Reciprocal relationship
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

25. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
Metadata
A new layer
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Black (0)

26. 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?
Soft proofing
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Black (0)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

27. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
Blue
Magenta
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
5 -000 Kelvin

28. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Reflected light meter

29. A histogram shows what in an image?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Fisheye

30. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
A high contrast image
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.
sRGB

31. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
Glossy paper
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
A raster image
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)

32. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
JPEG
Add green

33. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
RAID system
3200 Kelvin

34. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Convex
Infrared

35. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?
1 1/3 stops
Metamerism
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.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

36. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?
Depth of field
Shutter-priority
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Aperture-priority

37. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Actual Pixel view

38. What is burning?
Soft proofing
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
All colors

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?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
A RAW file that has been altered
Zoom lens
Shutter-priority

40. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Reflected light meter
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Metadata
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

41. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
One stop
Shutter-Priority
Cyan
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

42. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
8 stops
Add magenta
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Black (0)

43. 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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44. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Shutter-Priority
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Parallax

45. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
A change in illumination
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Metamerism

46. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.
Add blue
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
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.
Incident light meter

47. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
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.
Follow focus
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

48. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
Levels adjustment
Yellow
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.

49. What is a Bit?
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.
emphasizes textures
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.
3:1 or 4:1

50. What does ISO stand for?
International Organization for Standardization
ISO
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.
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject