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1. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Levels adjustment
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

2. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
8 bits
Half as much light
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Total number of pixels

3. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
A raster image

4. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
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.
Reflected light meter
Add red
Yellow

5. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
A new layer
stopped down
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

6. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Half as much light
Levels adjustment
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

7. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
Metamerism
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Fisheye

8. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Flat lighting
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.
Variations command
Follow focus

9. Resolution refers to what?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
5 -000 Kelvin
It increases
The sensor's sensitivity to light

10. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Blue & Green
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Convex
Soft proofing

11. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
Black (0)
Levels adjustment
1/250th
No

12. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add cyan
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Shutter-Priority
lens-to-subject distance

13. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
four times more
A mirror and pentaprism
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Add yellow

14. 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 - focal length - and distance to the subject
It increases
Depth of field
Aperture-priority

15. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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16. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
aperture diameter
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Total number of pixels

17. What is a derivative file?
Half as much light
A RAW file that has been altered
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

18. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
Zoom lens
ISO
1 or 2
Glossy paper

19. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
1 1/3 stops
Additive (R - G - B)
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Aperture and shutter

20. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
Magenta
Aperture and shutter
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

21. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
Short lighting
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

22. What does ISO stand for?
Bit
Glossy paper
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
International Organization for Standardization

23. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
A new layer
1 1/3 stops
Blown highlights
Aperture

24. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
Zoom lens
ISO
Front lighting
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

25. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Add yellow

26. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Black (0)
Convex
Butterfly lighting
Shutter-Priority

27. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Contrast
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Add cyan

28. Bit depth refers to what?
A raster image
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Convex
The amount of information contained in each pixel

29. What are luminance and illuminance?
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)
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
International Organization for Standardization
A new layer

30. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
Glossy paper
Infinity
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Bit

31. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Add cyan
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 - focal length - and distance to the subject

32. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Very wide at about 180 degrees
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

33. What is the best color profile for web images?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
International Organization for Standardization
sRGB

34. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Soft proofing
Blue
Reciprocal relationship

35. 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?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Shutter-priority
Short lighting
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.

36. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Shutter-Priority
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

37. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
8 bits
5 -000 Kelvin
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
A mirror and pentaprism

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

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39. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
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
stopped down
Lasso tool

40. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Front lighting
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
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.

41. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Aperture
Shutter speed & aperture
flat - low contrast light
hue/saturation adjustment layer

42. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Follow focus
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.
Soft proofing

43. Printers use what set of colors?
sensor
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.
Use and adjustment layer
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

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

45. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
Dynamic range
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.
256
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).

46. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
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 diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
9
The impression human vision gives

47. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Butterfly lighting
Depth of field
Snoot
Incident light meter

48. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
Follow focus
Dynamic range
1 1/3 stops
Parallax

49. What is TTL?
The difference between light and dark.
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
A raster image

50. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.