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1. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
A new layer
sRGB
Metadata

2. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
emphasizes textures
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.
Because you can move in close to the subject

3. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Lasso tool
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Add blue
Aperture-priority

4. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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5. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?
Contrast
Black (0)
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Aperture-Priority

6. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Follow focus
four times more
sensor
3:1 or 4:1

7. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Aperture
Front lighting
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

8. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
Yellow
stopped down
Use and adjustment layer
hue/saturation adjustment layer

9. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Selecting portions of the image based on color
3200 Kelvin
256

10. A magic wand tool is used for what?
Actual Pixel view
No
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.
Selecting portions of the image based on color

11. What is a thyristor?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
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.
Dynamic range

12. What does a neutral density filter do?
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.
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
JPEG

13. What does ISO stand for?
emphasizes textures
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
Black (0)

14. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
RAID system
Incident light meter
Follow focus
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

15. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Blue & Green
High Dynamic Range
Fair Use

16. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Parallax
Blue
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

17. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Short lighting.
Add red
ISO
Additive (R - G - B)

18. 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?
Convex
Yellow
Front lighting
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

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

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20. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
Additive (R - G - B)
Add magenta
Infinity
Lower

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?
Actual Pixel view
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Convex
A new layer

22. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
JPEG
One stop
One stop less
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

23. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)

24. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
Zoom 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.
1 or 2
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

25. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Levels adjustment
Fisheye
Zoom lens
Incident light meter

26. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?
Yellow
Add red
Depth of field
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.

27. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
Yellow
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
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 lighting

28. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
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)
Front lighting
Butterfly lighting
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.

29. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add cyan
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Fair Use
JPEG

30. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
A change in illumination
Metamerism
Butterfly lighting

31. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Fair Use
Dynamic range
flat - low contrast light

32. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
Levels adjustment
Levels adjustment
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
A mirror and pentaprism

33. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
Bit
sRGB
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
four times more

34. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Broad lighting
Infinity
Use and adjustment layer

35. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.
Snoot
256
Because you can move in close to the subject
Soft proofing

36. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Short lighting
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Convex

37. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
Aperture-priority
Infrared
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.
Yellow

38. What is burning?
1 or 2
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.
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

39. What is a derivative file?
Cyan
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.
A RAW file that has been altered
8 bits

40. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
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.
Reciprocal relationship
Reflected light meter
1/250th

41. 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.
White (255)
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

42. What is a flag?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
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
Zoom lens
9

43. Bit depth refers to what?
stopped down
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.

44. 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.
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Half as much light

45. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Infinity
1 or 2
In the middle

46. What is the inverse square law?
Aperture
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
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.
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. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
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)
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
emphasizes textures
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.

48. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
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.
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 RAW file that has been altered
5 -000 Kelvin

49. 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?
Shutter-priority
Add cyan
It increases
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

50. What is TTL?
Metamerism
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.