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1. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
It increases
Aperture-Priority
Lower
RAID system

2. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
RAID system
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
hue/saturation 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.

3. What is burning?
Reciprocal relationship
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
9

4. What is a flag?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
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

5. A histogram shows what in an image?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Blue & Green
Zoom lens
sRGB

6. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Follow focus
Infinity
Blown highlights

7. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add red
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
In the middle
four times more

8. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
Metamerism
All colors
Use and adjustment layer
Levels adjustment

9. 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?
Bit
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

10. Printers use what set of colors?
stopped down
Use and adjustment layer
Add magenta
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

11. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Add magenta
Front lighting
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)

12. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
Cyan
Soft proofing
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
hue/saturation adjustment layer

13. What would you use an ICC profile for?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
The impression human vision gives
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

14. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
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)
A high contrast image
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.
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

15. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
emphasizes textures
lens-to-subject distance
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Short lighting

16. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
High Dynamic Range
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
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.
A new layer

17. What are the effects of high side lighting?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
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.
flat - low contrast light
Snoot

18. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
8 bits
Selecting portions of the image based on color
JPEG

19. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Soft proofing
Yellow
Aperture
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

20. Panning does what?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Short lighting.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
A new layer

21. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
8 bits
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Reflected light meter
No

22. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Levels adjustment
Dynamic range
Shutter-Priority

23. What is interpolated resolution?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
A change in illumination
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
8 stops

24. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Lasso tool
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

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

26. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Bit
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

27. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
emphasizes textures
256
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

28. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Blue & Green
hue/saturation adjustment layer
JPEG

29. 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.
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Short lighting.
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

30. What is a color profile?
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).
Total number of pixels
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
emphasizes textures

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

32. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
3200 Kelvin
Front lighting

33. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Depth of field
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

34. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
flat - low contrast light
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
emphasizes textures
Half as much light

35. Perspective is affected by what?
lens-to-subject distance
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

36. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
Add cyan
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
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.

37. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?
stopped down
In the middle
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
All colors

38. 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-priority
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

39. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
8 bits
Lasso tool
Soft proofing
Yellow

40. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
White (255)
Metamerism
Fisheye

41. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Depth of field
Variations command
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

42. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Dynamic range
Aperture and shutter

43. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
Infinity
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Dynamic range

44. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
5 -000 Kelvin
Follow focus
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Incident light meter

45. What is a BYTE?
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
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.
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Parallax

46. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Broad lighting
Blue & Green
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.

47. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
1/250th
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)
9
Add cyan

48. What is a thyristor?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
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.
Metamerism

49. 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.
Aperture
JPEG
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

50. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Shutter speed & aperture
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject