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1. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
One stop less
Infrared
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Parallax

2. Contrast measures what in a print?
Shutter speed & aperture
Aperture
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
The difference between light and dark.

3. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
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.
lens-to-subject distance
Flat lighting
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

4. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add green
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
1 1/3 stops
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.

5. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Glossy paper
A new layer
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.

6. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
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Glossy paper

7. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
International Organization for Standardization
Shutter-Priority
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Flat lighting

8. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
Infrared
Soft proofing
Incident light meter
Add red

9. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
A change in illumination
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Fair Use
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.

10. 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
Soft proofing
Black (0)
Levels adjustment

11. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Levels adjustment
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.
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).
Butterfly lighting

12. What does ISO stand for?
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Add green
International Organization for Standardization
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

13. What is a color profile?
3200 Kelvin
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.
5000K
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).

14. What is TTL?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
A raster image
Half as much light

15. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
sRGB
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.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

16. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Blue & Green
Shutter-Priority
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Magenta

17. 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.
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

18. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.
Aperture-priority
Incident light meter
One stop less
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

19. What are the effects of high side lighting?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Very wide at about 180 degrees
White (255)
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.

20. What does a neutral density filter do?
flat - low contrast light
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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.

21. What is the best color profile for web images?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
sRGB
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Add cyan

22. What is burning?
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.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
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

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

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24. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
A change in illumination
1 or 2
Blown highlights
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

25. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
four times more
A raster image
Shutter-priority
ISO

26. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Soft proofing
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
One stop less

27. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
1/250th
Follow focus
Add magenta
Add red

28. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Short lighting
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1 1/3 stops

29. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
3:1 or 4:1
Glossy paper

30. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Flat lighting
Broad lighting
Add yellow

31. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
ISO
Levels adjustment
Blown highlights
A raster image

32. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?
Soft proofing
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
lens-to-subject distance

33. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Metadata
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Add blue
Infrared

34. What is interpolated resolution?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
JPEG
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

35. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
stopped down
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
JPEG
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

36. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Fair Use
Short lighting.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

37. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
The difference between light and dark.
It increases
The impression human vision gives
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.

38. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
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
All colors
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.

39. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Because you can move in close to the subject
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Parallax
flat - low contrast light

40. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Zoom lens
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
1/250th

41. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Parallax
1 1/3 stops
Flat lighting
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

42. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
ISO
Metadata
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

43. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Follow focus
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
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.
ISO

44. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Shutter speed & aperture
Total number of pixels
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Reflected light meter

45. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Depth of field
The difference between light and dark.

46. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
RAID system
8 bits
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

47. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Metamerism
Soft proofing
Shutter speed & aperture

48. What is the effect of front lighting?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Shutter-Priority
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Shutter-priority

49. What are luminance and illuminance?
Half as much light
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
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)
Selecting portions of the image based on color

50. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Fisheye
Add yellow
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