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1. What is the best color profile for web images?
8 stops
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
sRGB

2. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
Aperture
lens-to-subject distance
Short lighting
Snoot

3. What do TTL systems react to?
Short lighting.
A new layer
Total number of pixels
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

4. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
9
Bit
Levels adjustment
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

5. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
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.
Fair Use
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
four times more

6. What is a BYTE?
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.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
256
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.

7. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
Aperture-Priority
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
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.

8. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
RAID system
Reciprocal relationship
Add blue
sRGB

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?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
JPEG
Infrared
Aperture-priority

10. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
RAID system
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
In the middle
Very wide at about 180 degrees

11. Aperture controls what?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Incident light meter

12. What is burning?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
aperture diameter
No

13. What is gamut?
Lower
8 bits
Add magenta
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

14. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Cyan
Small light source at an angle to the subject
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light

15. What does a neutral density filter do?
Infinity
Fair Use
Butterfly lighting
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

16. What are the effects of top lighting?
Use and adjustment layer
The difference between light and dark.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

17. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
One stop
Black (0)
1/250th
Aperture and shutter

18. 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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19. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
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.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Add red
Follow focus

20. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
lens-to-subject distance
Blown highlights
Front lighting

21. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
Blue
Actual Pixel view
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
lens-to-subject distance

22. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
sensor
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Short lighting.

23. Perspective is affected by what?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
lens-to-subject distance
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Incident light meter

24. Resolution refers to what?
Yellow
JPEG
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.
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

25. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
5000K
Levels adjustment
Add yellow
Add blue

26. What are luminance and illuminance?
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)
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
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.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

27. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
It increases
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
Broad lighting

28. The term "ISO speed" is used to describe what?

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29. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
Parallax
The difference between light and dark.
Metamerism
Soft proofing

30. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Fair Use
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
A high contrast image
Add red

31. What is the inverse square law?
256
Short lighting
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.
Actual Pixel view

32. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very light toned scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
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.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
The impression human vision gives
Butterfly lighting

33. What are the effects of high side lighting?
Parallax
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.
Very wide at about 180 degrees
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.

34. What is interpolated resolution?
9
1 1/3 stops
Shutter-Priority
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

35. What is TTL?
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Yellow
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Yellow

36. What light source has the highest color temperature?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

37. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
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.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
The difference between light and dark.

38. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Glossy paper
Convex
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

39. Focal length controls what?
Fisheye
sRGB
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

40. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
sensor
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
White (255)
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

41. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Because you can move in close to the subject
Zoom lens
A new layer

42. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Magenta
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.
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Zoom lens

43. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
Soft proofing
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
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.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

44. What is a flag?
Actual Pixel view
Short lighting
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
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

45. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Cyan
Contrast
Half as much light

46. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Butterfly 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
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.
Add magenta

47. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
Short lighting.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Actual Pixel view
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

48. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
It increases
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.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Blue

49. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
aperture diameter
5 -000 Kelvin
Blown highlights
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

50. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
In the middle
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area