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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
emphasizes textures
Shutter speed & aperture
Glossy paper
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

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

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3. What are the effects of top lighting?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Black (0)
The impression human vision gives
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

4. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?
Infinity
All colors
The impression human vision gives
8 stops

5. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Blown highlights
Front lighting
Shutter speed & aperture
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

6. 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.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Zoom lens
Fisheye

7. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
It increases
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
3200 Kelvin

8. 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?
Black (0)
Yellow
Aperture
Infrared

9. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Incident light meter
Because you can move in close to the subject
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

10. A magic wand tool is used for what?
Snoot
JPEG
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

11. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Reciprocal relationship
Broad lighting

12. Contrast measures what in a print?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
The difference between light and dark.

13. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Fair Use
The difference between light and dark.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

14. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
8 stops
9
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Shutter-Priority

15. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Butterfly lighting
Lower

16. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Blue
Convex
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
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.

17. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
International Organization for Standardization
Actual Pixel view
Half as much light
A change in illumination

18. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
Add magenta
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
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.
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

19. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Blue & Green
Half as much light
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Add red

20. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
A raster image
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Add yellow

21. What is a color profile?
Flat lighting
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
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).
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

22. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).
Reciprocal relationship
Small light source at an angle to the subject
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Selecting portions of the image based on color

23. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add red
3:1 or 4:1
8 stops
Magenta

24. What is an element and where is it found?
stopped down
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

25. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
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.
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

26. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
The impression human vision gives
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Add cyan

27. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
Metadata
Aperture-Priority
It increases
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

28. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
No
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.
stopped down
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).

29. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Black (0)
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Infinity
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.

30. What is the effect of front lighting?
Infrared
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.
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.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

31. A histogram shows what in an image?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
lens-to-subject distance
Shutter-priority

32. What is TTL?
four times more
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Short lighting.

33. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
A change in illumination
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
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.

34. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
A mirror and pentaprism
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.
No

35. What is burning?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Butterfly lighting
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
3:1 or 4:1

36. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Glossy paper
Short lighting
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
High Dynamic Range

37. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
1 1/3 stops
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

38. 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
hue/saturation adjustment layer
9
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.

39. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
Infinity
Front lighting
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
Variations command

40. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
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.
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.
1 or 2
Fair Use

41. What is the inverse square law?
5000K
One stop
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.
Lasso tool

42. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Fair Use
Follow focus
Shutter-priority
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

43. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
The sensor's sensitivity to light
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

44. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
It increases
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Convex
Follow focus

45. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Metadata
Soft proofing
sRGB
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors

46. What is a flag?
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.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
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
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

47. Aperture controls what?
Reciprocal relationship
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
8 bits

48. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
Metamerism
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
The difference between light and dark.
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

49. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Glossy paper
Cyan
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

50. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Infrared
Shutter-Priority
Flat lighting