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1. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Dynamic range
Short lighting

2. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
A high contrast image
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Blue

3. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
White (255)
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
It increases

4. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Soft proofing
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.
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Broad lighting

5. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Parallax
Convex
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

6. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called 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)
Depth of field
Add yellow
Follow focus

7. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
Follow focus
Lasso tool
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

8. Bit depth refers to what?
Black (0)
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Additive (R - G - B)
The amount of information contained in each pixel

9. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
One stop less
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Butterfly lighting
All colors

10. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add red
Blown highlights
Fair Use
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

11. What are the effects of top lighting?
Add red
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Levels adjustment

12. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
5000K
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Lower
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

13. 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?
aperture diameter
Metamerism
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
four times more

14. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
A change in illumination

15. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
A new layer
Fisheye
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.
Lower

16. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
High Dynamic Range
1 1/3 stops
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

17. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Short lighting.
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Aperture-priority
Dynamic range

18. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Total number of pixels
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

19. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Depth of field
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
256
Short lighting

20. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Lasso tool
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.
3200 Kelvin
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

21. Aperture controls what?
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 sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

22. What does ISO stand for?
International Organization for Standardization
Actual Pixel view
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Blue

23. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
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).
A change in illumination
Aperture
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

24. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Aperture
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

25. What is interpolated resolution?
International Organization for Standardization
ISO
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
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)

26. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
Add magenta
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
White (255)
Small light source at an angle to the subject

27. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
RAID system
Blue & Green
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

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

29. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Infinity
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.
Total number of pixels
Blue

30. What is focal length - technically?
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
sRGB
Total number of pixels

31. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
Shutter-Priority
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Actual Pixel view
sensor

32. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
Actual Pixel view
A RAW file that has been altered
flat - low contrast light
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)

33. A histogram shows what in an image?
Snoot
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

34. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Variations command
The impression human vision gives
Total number of pixels
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

35. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
No
Aperture
High Dynamic Range

36. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
No
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
3:1 or 4:1

37. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Levels adjustment
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
It increases

38. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
No
Bit
The impression human vision gives
Lower

39. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
Levels adjustment
Black (0)
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.
5000K

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

41. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
aperture diameter
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
1/250th

42. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
8 stops
Because you can move in close to the subject
Blown highlights

43. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
Yellow
RAID system
Butterfly lighting
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.

44. What is the effect of front lighting?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Add green
The impression human vision gives
Shutter-Priority

45. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Add red
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.
sRGB

46. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
Metadata
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
The amount of information contained in each pixel
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

47. What is a BYTE?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Convex
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
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.

48. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
four times more
Shutter-Priority
8 bits
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

49. What is an element and where is it found?
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.
256
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Flat lighting

50. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Reflected light meter
Glossy paper