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1. 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.
Add blue
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

2. What is an element and where is it found?
Black (0)
lens-to-subject distance
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

3. According to the Inverse Square Law - at a distance of 10 feet from a flash - the area illuminated receives how much more/less light than the area illuminated at 20 feet from the flash?
four times more
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Blue & Green
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

4. Resolution refers to what?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
International Organization for Standardization
Follow focus

5. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.
Blown highlights
Snoot
four times more
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

6. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
stopped down
Aperture-priority
Soft proofing
Bit

7. What would you use an ICC profile for?
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.
Front lighting
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Aperture-Priority

8. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
A mirror and pentaprism
Incident light meter
Dynamic range
Blown highlights

9. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
Add red
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
A raster image
hue/saturation adjustment layer

10. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
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.
High Dynamic Range
aperture diameter

11. 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?
ISO
Aperture-priority
Small light source at an angle to the subject
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

12. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
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.
Blue & Green
Aperture
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

13. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
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.
3200 Kelvin

14. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.
Aperture
Incident light meter
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

15. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
A change in illumination
Metadata
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
The impression human vision gives

16. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?
Metadata
Cyan
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

17. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
A RAW file that has been altered
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Levels adjustment

18. What is a Bit?
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.
stopped down
Incident light meter
Aperture-Priority

19. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Broad lighting
Infrared
Aperture-Priority
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.

20. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
Zoom lens
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
The amount of information contained in each pixel

21. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Add magenta
Levels adjustment
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Fair Use

22. What is dodging?
Add green
It increases
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.

23. When buying a lens hood - you should get it in what size relative to the lens?

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24. A histogram shows what in an image?
3:1 or 4:1
Aperture and shutter
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Infinity

25. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?
Depth of field
3200 Kelvin
Butterfly lighting
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

26. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Use and adjustment layer
All colors
Metadata
Levels adjustment

27. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Blown highlights
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 number of pixels per unit of length in a image

28. A magic wand tool is used for what?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
8 bits
Selecting portions of the image based on color

29. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
Shutter speed & aperture
Lower
four times more
256

30. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?
Aperture
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
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.
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

31. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Shutter-Priority
Short lighting.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

32. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Incident light meter
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.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
3:1 or 4:1

33. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
four times more
stopped down
Cyan
Add green

34. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?
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.
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)

35. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
Convex
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

36. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Convex
It increases
Cyan
Front lighting

37. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
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.
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
The impression human vision gives

38. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
5000K
Lasso tool
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The amount of information contained in each pixel

39. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
One stop
1 1/3 stops
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

40. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Reciprocal relationship
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

41. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add blue
Broad lighting
Follow focus
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42. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
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.

43. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Half as much light
Broad lighting
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.

44. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Shutter-Priority
Yellow
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 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.

45. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Aperture
1/250th
Blown highlights

46. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Additive (R - G - B)
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Butterfly lighting
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

47. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
aperture diameter
A new layer

48. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
Aperture-priority
Actual Pixel view
Bit
Additive (R - G - B)

49. What are the effects of high side lighting?
Snoot
The difference between light and dark.
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.
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.

50. Contrast measures what in a print?
The difference between light and dark.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Blown highlights
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

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