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1. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
Contrast
In the middle
One stop
Fisheye

2. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
Actual Pixel view
Aperture-priority
All colors
Cyan

3. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Depth of field
Front lighting
Additive (R - G - B)

4. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
Dynamic range
Levels adjustment
A raster image
Half as much light

5. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
A mirror and pentaprism
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.
Magenta

6. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Metadata
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Dynamic range
A new layer

7. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Add yellow
Use and adjustment layer

8. What is a color profile?
Levels adjustment
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).
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

9. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
flat - low contrast light
Reflected light meter
JPEG
Zoom lens

10. What does ISO stand for?
8 bits
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
International Organization for Standardization
Contrast

11. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
International Organization for Standardization
JPEG
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

12. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
One stop less
8 bits
Glossy paper
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

13. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
ISO
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Selecting portions of the image based on color

14. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
The impression human vision gives
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Levels adjustment

15. What light source has the highest color temperature?
1 1/3 stops
Broad lighting
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
All colors

16. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?
Lasso tool
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Yellow
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

17. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Front lighting
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Add green
Zoom lens

18. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture - what mode are you working in?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
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
Shutter-priority
8 bits

19. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Cyan
Butterfly lighting
In the middle
Fisheye

20. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
sRGB
four times more
Blue
Additive (R - G - B)

21. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

22. What is the inverse square law?
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.
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.
It increases
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.

23. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
The sensor's sensitivity to light
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.
8 bits
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

24. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Blue & Green
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Short lighting
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

25. 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?
Soft proofing
Metadata
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
four times more

26. Panning does what?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Black (0)
A raster image
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

27. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
sRGB
emphasizes textures
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Blue & Green

28. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Levels adjustment
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Follow focus
Magenta

29. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
1 or 2
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Yellow

30. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
9
A RAW file that has been altered
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Reciprocal relationship

31. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Aperture and shutter
Infinity
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

32. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Cyan
White (255)
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

33. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
All colors
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
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. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Short lighting
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Add cyan
Shutter speed & aperture

35. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
RAID system
High Dynamic Range
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Aperture

36. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Shutter-Priority
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).
A high contrast image
Short lighting.

37. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
1 or 2
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
256

38. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Shutter speed & aperture
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
In the middle
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.

39. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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40. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
1 1/3 stops
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Cyan

41. Resolution refers to what?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
sensor
A RAW file that has been altered
No

42. What is a thyristor?
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Aperture and shutter
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.
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.

43. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Infinity
Shutter-Priority
Convex
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor

44. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
Depth of field
Blue
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
1 or 2

45. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
sensor
Contrast
5 -000 Kelvin

46. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
JPEG
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Broad lighting
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

47. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
RAID system
High Dynamic Range

48. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
A RAW file that has been altered
Use and adjustment layer
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.
hue/saturation adjustment layer

49. What is a flag?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Parallax
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
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

50. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
aperture diameter
1 or 2
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Add red