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1. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Magenta
sRGB
Bit
Short lighting.

2. What is a Bit?
A new layer
Metadata
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.
Depth of field

3. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Flat lighting
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

4. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Follow focus
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
8 bits

5. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
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.
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
A change in illumination

6. What are IPTC fields used for?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Broad lighting
Lasso tool
Add magenta

7. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Magenta
Yellow
Dynamic range
A new layer

8. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Follow focus
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The sensor's sensitivity to light

9. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Aperture-Priority
3:1 or 4:1
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.
Levels adjustment

10. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
Levels adjustment
All colors
Blown highlights
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

11. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Add magenta
One stop less

12. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
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
Flat lighting

13. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Fisheye
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
5000K
Add green

14. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
In the middle
1 1/3 stops
RAID system
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

15. Printers use what set of colors?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
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.
1/250th
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

16. What is a color profile?
Reflected light meter
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.
Selecting portions of the image based on color
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).

17. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
In the middle
Aperture and shutter
Add blue
9

18. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.
All colors
Snoot
Soft proofing
Infrared

19. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
It increases
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

20. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
sRGB
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Lasso tool
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

21. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
It increases
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Fair Use
Black (0)

22. What would you use an ICC profile for?
Cyan
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Very wide at about 180 degrees

23. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
256
Add red
Follow focus
Glossy paper

24. What is TTL?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
A new layer
Add yellow
Variations command

25. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add cyan
flat - low contrast light
A high contrast image
Shutter-priority

26. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Soft proofing
Lasso tool
Additive (R - G - B)

27. What is interpolated resolution?
Shutter-Priority
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
A mirror and pentaprism
International Organization for Standardization

28. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Add red
It increases
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

29. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
1 or 2
Aperture-Priority
A high contrast image

30. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Levels adjustment
Butterfly lighting
Infrared
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

31. A magic wand tool is used for what?
stopped down
lens-to-subject distance
Half as much light
Selecting portions of the image based on color

32. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Yellow
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

33. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Yellow
Broad lighting
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
aperture diameter

34. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Follow focus
Shutter-Priority
Incident light meter
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

35. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
Short lighting
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.
Reciprocal relationship
Blue

36. 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?
5000K
Cyan
Depth of field
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

37. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
A mirror and pentaprism
Add green

38. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
The difference between light and dark.
In the middle
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

39. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Front lighting
Shutter speed & aperture
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).
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

40. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Blown highlights
Add yellow

41. 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
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Short lighting.
hue/saturation adjustment layer

42. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
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.
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
The difference between light and dark.
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

43. What is the effect of front lighting?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Add green
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Reflected light meter

44. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
ISO
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

45. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Reflected light meter
3:1 or 4:1
No
A mirror and pentaprism

46. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
A high contrast image
The sensor's sensitivity to light
White (255)
Blue & Green

47. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
Fisheye
lens-to-subject distance
four times more
No

48. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
flat - low contrast light
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
A change in illumination
Metadata

49. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Short lighting
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.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color

50. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
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).
Infinity
Black (0)