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1. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






2. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






3. What do TTL systems react to?






4. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?






5. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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6. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






7. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






8. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






9. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?






10. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






11. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?






12. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






13. What are the effects of high side lighting?






14. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






15. A histogram shows what in an image?






16. 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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17. Panning does what?






18. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.






19. What is a color profile?






20. What does a neutral density filter do?






21. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






22. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






23. What is a thyristor?






24. What would you use an ICC profile for?






25. What is the best color profile for web images?






26. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






27. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?






28. Contrast measures what in a print?






29. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






30. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






31. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






32. What is burning?






33. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






34. Resolution refers to what?






35. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?






36. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?






37. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






38. Printers use what set of colors?






39. What are the effects of top lighting?






40. What is focal length - technically?






41. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






42. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.






43. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






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

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45. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






46. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?






47. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?






48. What is a derivative file?






49. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






50. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






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