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1. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
Metamerism
Shutter-Priority
The impression human vision gives
Convex

2. What is the best color profile for web images?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
sRGB
Butterfly lighting

3. Panning does what?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Yellow
The sensor's sensitivity to light
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

4. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?
3200 Kelvin
3:1 or 4:1
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
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5. What is gamut?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
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.
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.

6. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
emphasizes textures
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Blue

7. Printers use what set of colors?
Yellow
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Shutter-Priority
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

8. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
A new layer
In the middle
A high contrast image
Soft proofing

9. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
1/250th

10. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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11. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?
Aperture-Priority
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.
Yellow
1 1/3 stops

12. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Butterfly lighting
8 stops
1 or 2
Black (0)

13. What is a BYTE?
stopped down
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.
Butterfly lighting
Use and adjustment layer

14. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
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No
Broad lighting
Add yellow

15. What does ISO stand for?
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
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Add magenta
International Organization for Standardization

16. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
1 or 2
It increases
Glossy paper
Total number of pixels

17. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Follow focus
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
flat - low contrast light

18. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
5000K
Add green
3:1 or 4:1
Aperture-Priority

19. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?
Shutter speed & aperture
A change in illumination
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.
5000K

20. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
It increases
Shutter-Priority
5 -000 Kelvin
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

21. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
Very wide at about 180 degrees
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 diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Infinity

22. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Short lighting.
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).

23. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
Flat lighting
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Blue & Green
RAID system

24. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
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
Snoot
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

25. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Levels adjustment
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.

26. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
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.
sensor
Total number of pixels

27. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Lasso tool
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

28. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Reflected light meter
Add cyan
Blue
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

29. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
A mirror and pentaprism
A new layer
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Levels adjustment

30. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
One stop
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.

31. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
ISO
White (255)
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.

32. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?
5000K
Add yellow
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Depth of field

33. What is the inverse square law?
Metadata
Variations command
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.
256

34. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
Shutter-priority
Broad lighting
No
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.

35. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
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Infinity
Shutter-priority

36. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Reflected light meter
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

37. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
A mirror and pentaprism
aperture diameter
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.
Total number of pixels

38. 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?
5000K
Flat lighting
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

39. What do TTL systems react to?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
A mirror and pentaprism
Snoot
A change in illumination

40. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?
sRGB
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
One stop
Blue & Green

41. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Soft proofing
5 -000 Kelvin
The impression human vision gives
Parallax

42. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Black (0)
Actual Pixel view
Add cyan

43. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
1/250th
3:1 or 4:1
Fisheye
Follow focus

44. According to the Inverse Square Law - at a distance of 10 feet from a flash - the area illuminated receives how much more/less light than the area illuminated at 20 feet from the flash?
four times more
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
8 bits
The difference between light and dark.

45. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
It increases
One stop
Infrared
The sensor's sensitivity to light

46. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
stopped down
A high contrast image
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

47. Resolution refers to what?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
flat - low contrast light
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Because you can move in close to the subject

48. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
The amount of information contained in each pixel
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Yellow

49. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?
Use and adjustment layer
1 or 2
Lasso tool
The impression human vision gives

50. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
Zoom lens
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Follow focus
Cyan