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1. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Blown highlights
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Reciprocal relationship

2. Contrast measures what in a print?
Glossy paper
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
The difference between light and dark.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

3. What is a BYTE?
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.
Magenta
Fair Use
Variations command

4. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
8 bits
A mirror and pentaprism
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

5. What is a flag?
8 stops
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
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.
Blue

6. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
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.
5 -000 Kelvin
Variations command

7. What are luminance and illuminance?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
256

8. What are the effects of top lighting?
One stop
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

9. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
5000K
Zoom lens
Yellow
Incident light meter

10. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
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.
Actual Pixel view
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
International Organization for Standardization

11. Printers use what set of colors?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
International Organization for Standardization
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

12. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
A change in illumination
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
ISO

13. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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14. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
9
1 or 2
Infinity
Because you can move in close to the subject

15. What is burning?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Fair Use
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

16. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Reciprocal relationship
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

17. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Bit
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Levels adjustment

18. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
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
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Glossy paper

19. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Lasso tool
Incident light meter
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
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.

20. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
flat - low contrast light
All colors
Aperture
Cyan

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

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22. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Aperture-Priority
Levels adjustment
Soft proofing
Zoom lens

23. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Broad lighting
Soft proofing
9
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

24. 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?
Yellow
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Dynamic range
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

25. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Zoom lens
Blown highlights

26. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
Blue & Green
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)
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.

27. 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)
Yellow
Fair Use
Add cyan

28. What is the inverse square law?
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
3200 Kelvin
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.
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.

29. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Magenta
emphasizes textures
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Zoom lens

30. Aperture controls what?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
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.
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Soft proofing

31. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Follow focus
Yellow
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

32. 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?
Zoom lens
Shutter-priority
A change in illumination
Follow focus

33. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Reciprocal relationship
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Add blue

34. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
Dynamic range
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
8 stops
RAID system

35. What is dodging?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Actual Pixel view
A high contrast image
Front lighting

36. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Front lighting
The difference between light and dark.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

37. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Levels adjustment
Fisheye
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
In the middle

38. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
A mirror and pentaprism
Black (0)
The impression human vision gives
One stop

39. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Yellow
Half as much light
The impression human vision gives
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

40. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
1/250th
One stop less
Additive (R - G - B)
Magenta

41. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add green
Reflected light meter
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.
Short lighting

42. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
sensor
Bit
Cyan
Yellow

43. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
One stop
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Butterfly lighting
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

44. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
Short lighting.
Add blue
flat - low contrast light
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

45. A histogram shows what in an image?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

46. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Flat lighting
White (255)

47. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
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.
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

48. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Short lighting
RAID system
1 1/3 stops
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

49. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
256
Flat lighting
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
A RAW file that has been altered

50. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
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.
Add red
Follow focus
Short lighting