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1. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






2. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






3. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






4. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?






5. What is gamut?






6. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






7. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






8. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?






9. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






10. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






11. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






12. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?






13. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?






14. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






15. What is TTL?






16. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






17. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?






18. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






19. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






20. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?






21. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






22. 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?






23. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?






24. What would you use an ICC profile for?






25. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?






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

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

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28. 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?






29. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.






30. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






31. Printers use what set of colors?






32. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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33. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?






34. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






35. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






36. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.






37. 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?






38. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






39. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






40. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






41. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.






42. Focal length controls what?






43. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






44. What is a thyristor?






45. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






46. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?






47. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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48. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






49. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?






50. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.







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