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1. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Levels adjustment
It increases

2. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Add red
Variations command
Short lighting

3. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
Yellow
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

4. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.
Actual Pixel view
Convex
Cyan
emphasizes textures

5. What would you use an ICC profile for?
A mirror and pentaprism
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Infinity
Black (0)

6. If your print will be viewed mostly under window light - what is the suggested Kelvin temperature of the lights you should use to evaluate your print?
A high contrast image
A RAW file that has been altered
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.
5000K

7. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
A high contrast image
Add magenta
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Flat lighting

8. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
Short lighting
Blue
A raster image
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

9. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
The difference between light and dark.
1/250th
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Add green

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

11. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Add yellow
Follow focus
No
Add cyan

12. What is the best color profile for web images?
sRGB
5000K
Fair Use
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

13. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Lower
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Additive (R - G - B)
One stop less

14. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
flat - low contrast light
Follow focus
No
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.

15. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
A RAW file that has been altered
hue/saturation adjustment layer
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.

16. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
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.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Reciprocal relationship

17. 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?
1/250th
Aperture and shutter
Shutter-Priority
Aperture-priority

18. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
One stop
Yellow
Lasso tool

19. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
1 or 2
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
A raster image
Lower

20. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Because you can move in close to the subject
Contrast
Fisheye
Flat lighting

21. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
Shutter speed & aperture
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
The impression human vision gives
Because you can move in close to the subject

22. What does side lighting emphasize?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
A high contrast image
emphasizes textures
A RAW file that has been altered

23. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?
Blue & Green
Glossy paper
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan

24. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

25. What does a neutral density filter do?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
In the middle
Blue
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

26. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Broad lighting
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

27. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
sensor
aperture diameter
JPEG
Fair Use

28. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Flat lighting
Use and adjustment layer
Broad lighting
Fisheye

29. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
1 or 2
Magenta
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Soft proofing

30. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Actual Pixel view
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.
3:1 or 4:1

31. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
Fair Use
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Levels adjustment
A raster image

32. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Small light source at an angle to the subject

33. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
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
Parallax
JPEG

34. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
The impression human vision gives
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Half as much light
3200 Kelvin

35. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Short lighting.
Butterfly lighting
Parallax
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

36. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
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.
Follow focus
Infinity

37. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
four times more
One stop
Convex
ISO

38. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
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 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.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Metadata

39. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
Reflected light meter
Aperture
A raster image
Aperture-Priority

40. What are IPTC fields used for?
A raster image
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Levels adjustment
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

41. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
sensor
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Selecting portions of the image based on color
lens-to-subject distance

42. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
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.
5000K
Flat lighting
9

43. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
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
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

44. Aperture controls what?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Blue & Green
Add cyan
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

45. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
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.
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

46. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
Dynamic range
four times more
Fisheye
256

47. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Reciprocal relationship
Very wide at about 180 degrees

48. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
One stop less
9
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

49. What is a color profile?
ISO
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
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).
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor

50. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?