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1. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
A RAW file that has been altered
One stop less
Metadata

2. What is an element and where is it found?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Broad lighting
Metadata

3. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
Dynamic range
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Flat lighting

4. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
Aperture-priority
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Fisheye
All colors

5. Resolution refers to what?
Follow focus
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
White (255)

6. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
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.
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.
Because you can move in close to the subject
Broad lighting

7. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Add red
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
9
White (255)

8. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Add cyan
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 brightness of all the pixels in an image

9. What is the effect of front lighting?
Shutter-priority
Actual Pixel view
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Flat lighting

10. What is focal length - technically?
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
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.

11. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
RAID system
Bit

12. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
1 or 2
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.
White (255)
5 -000 Kelvin

13. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
Fair Use
Lower
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
1 or 2

14. 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?
Reflected light meter
Shutter-priority
All colors
1 1/3 stops

15. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
Snoot
Fisheye
Add magenta
Zoom lens

16. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
White (255)
Lower
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Small light source at an angle to the subject

17. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
Snoot
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
The sensor's sensitivity to light
A mirror and pentaprism

18. Contrast measures what in a print?
sRGB
The difference between light and dark.
Half as much light
Magenta

19. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Blown highlights
Broad lighting
Short lighting
Lasso tool

20. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
A change in illumination
Total number of pixels
A RAW file that has been altered
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.

21. 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?
Magenta
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
No
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

22. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Reciprocal relationship
Additive (R - G - B)
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Shutter speed & aperture

23. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
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.
Aperture
Follow focus
One stop

24. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Levels adjustment
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.
Aperture-Priority
One stop

25. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Flat lighting
flat - low contrast light
256

26. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
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.
Yellow
1/250th
5 -000 Kelvin

27. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
Zoom lens
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Front lighting
hue/saturation adjustment layer

28. What are IPTC fields used for?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
The difference between light and dark.
aperture diameter

29. What does side lighting emphasize?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
emphasizes textures
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Cyan

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

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31. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
The difference between light and dark.
Aperture-Priority
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.
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

32. What is a Bit?
3200 Kelvin
Add blue
four times more
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.

33. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Additive (R - G - B)
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Add green
Shutter-Priority

34. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Dynamic range
Blown highlights
256

35. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Reciprocal relationship
It increases

36. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
One stop
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Dynamic range

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

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38. What would you use an ICC profile for?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Infrared
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Lower

39. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
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 -000 Kelvin
Broad lighting
sensor

40. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Dynamic range
Levels adjustment
Follow focus
Short lighting.

41. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
In the middle
Infinity
Levels adjustment

42. What is burning?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
It increases
8 stops

43. Panning does what?
Magenta
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
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).

44. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Soft proofing
RAID system
Depth of field

45. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
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
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Additive (R - G - B)

46. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Parallax
Variations command
sensor
Dynamic range

47. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Shutter speed & aperture
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

48. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
Aperture and shutter
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

49. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Infrared
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Add cyan
Add yellow

50. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
stopped down
Total number of pixels
Magenta
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

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