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1. What is burning?
Incident light meter
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
The difference between light and dark.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

2. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Soft proofing
5 -000 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.

3. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
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.
One stop less
Add yellow

4. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Flat lighting
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
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.

5. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
Follow focus
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
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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.

6. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
Lower
Zoom lens
flat - low contrast light
Fair Use

7. What is dodging?
The impression human vision gives
High Dynamic Range
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

8. 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
Follow focus
Glossy paper
Reciprocal relationship

9. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Front lighting
The impression human vision gives
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

10. A magic wand tool is used for what?
Shutter-priority
Selecting portions of the image based on color
lens-to-subject distance
The difference between light and dark.

11. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.
Parallax
Add magenta
Snoot
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

12. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
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.
High Dynamic Range
Butterfly lighting
Front lighting

13. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
A high contrast image
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Bit
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

14. What is the best color profile for web images?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Reciprocal relationship
sRGB
White (255)

15. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Yellow
Glossy paper
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
sensor

16. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
A mirror and pentaprism
Add cyan
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color

17. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Fisheye
High Dynamic Range

18. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Lasso tool
RAID system
Add green

19. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Fisheye

20. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
Because you can move in close to the subject
1 1/3 stops
Blown highlights
stopped down

21. 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?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
RAID system
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Aperture and shutter

22. 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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23. Printers use what set of colors?
Bit
A raster image
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

24. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?
A new layer
Convex
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.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

25. 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?
Cyan
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
5000K

26. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
Parallax
lens-to-subject distance
Lasso tool
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)

27. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?
Aperture-Priority
Reflected light meter
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
All colors

28. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Levels adjustment
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
stopped down
8 stops

29. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
1 1/3 stops
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.
Total number of pixels
Metadata

30. 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?
Metamerism
stopped down
Zoom lens
Yellow

31. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
Aperture and shutter
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Half as much light

32. What is a derivative file?
A RAW file that has been altered
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Black (0)

33. What is the effect of front lighting?
JPEG
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
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.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

34. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?
Blue
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
3200 Kelvin
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

35. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add blue
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
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.

36. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Follow focus
Infinity
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Lasso tool

37. Bit depth refers to what?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
The amount of information contained in each pixel
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

38. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Parallax
1/250th
Total number of pixels

39. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
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.
sRGB
A mirror and pentaprism
Half as much light

40. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
9
A RAW file that has been altered
A new layer
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.

41. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Small light source at an angle to the subject
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

42. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
256
All colors
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

43. What is a color profile?
Shutter speed & aperture
Convex
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).
Aperture

44. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
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.
aperture diameter
Shutter-priority
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

45. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
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.
Infrared
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.
8 bits

46. What is a Bit?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
emphasizes textures
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.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

47. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very dark scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
The difference between light and dark.
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Aperture-Priority
One stop

48. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Yellow
sensor
Dynamic range

49. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
Metadata
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
The sensor's sensitivity to light
flat - low contrast light

50. What is focal length - technically?
Metadata
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Add cyan
3200 Kelvin