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1
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What is the purpose of the Light meter?

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To determine your shutter speed and Aperture, and ISO based on lighting conditions and iso speed

2
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What is the purpose of Exposure compensation?

A

to render too black(dark) or too white(bright) objects in a photo

3
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What is the Histogram?

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A simple graph of the distribution of all the tones in your image.

4
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What does the term, Clipped shadows, or Highlights mean?

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When highlights disappear off right side of histogram and image is blown out or when shadows extend off of left side. lose detail.

5
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What is Focal length, and why adjust it?

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The increase/ decrease in magnification/ wider, and narrower views. and you would adjust it for different photog styles. (sports, portrait etc)

6
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What is a typical Portrait lens?

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A slightly telephoto lens

7
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What is the purpose of good composition?

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Arranging forms and tones in a pleasing way that guides the viewers eye to the subject.

8
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What are the four main things to consider when creating composition?

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  1. A subject and a background
  2. A sense of Balance
  3. A point of view
  4. Simplicity
9
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How do you reduce the intensity of light striking your subject?

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Use a Diffuser (Large white cloth which diffuse light, and create soft shadows)

10
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What kind of tools can be used to bounce light onto a subject?

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Silver or gold reflectors

11
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What are a few differences between the flash and natural light?

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you control the light. With natural light you have to control it with diffusers and reflectors. Flash/ can use in all light situations.

12
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Can you control the flash output? Why would you want to do this?

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Yes you can increase and decrease the power of the flash, you would do this for a better exposure in certain settings.

13
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Does a flash have a limited range?

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Yes, about 10-15 feet

14
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What is a concern when working in mixed light?

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The flash and other light source will interfere with the white balance creating a color cast.

15
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What is the advantage of using higher ISO or Slow Sync Flash Mode with the flash?

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High Iso- shooting in low light situations

Slow Sync- uses combo of flash and slow shutter to expose the foreground and background

16
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In what types of situations would you use a fill flash?

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in the dark, in bright situations where subject is shaded, or when subject is wearing a hat forcing shade over face

17
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What is the advantage of working with off camera flashes?

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Power, TTl metering, tilt and swivel, exposure comp control, and slave control

18
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Why is there Red Eye?

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Because the flash from camera bounces off of subjects retina when they look into lens

19
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In photography, describe the word tone?

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Ensuring that white, black, and overall contrast are correct.

20
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Why would you need to correct tone in an image editor?

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To make sure the black, white and gray levels look the way you want.

21
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What is the Midpoint?

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The slider in which you can adjust your midtones to make lighter or darker

22
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In Photoshop, what numeric values represent black and white?

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Black- 0

White- 255

23
Q

In the levels control what three main tones can you alter? Where do you find them?

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White, black, gray (midtone)

24
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How can data loss be minimized?

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Capture as much data as you can when shooting

25
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At what step in the workflow should you perform color corrections?

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Fourth because thats the edit stage

26
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What is a global adjustment on a digital file?

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Adjusting the color balances of different colors, mainly RGB

27
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Name three ways a color problem might occur?

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Wrong exposure, bad white balance, flash interfering w/ white balance

28
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What are the three color channels that make up a digital file?

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Red, Green, Blue

29
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What are the opposite colors of each channel?

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Red- yellow, purple

Green- yellow, light blue

Blue- light blue, and purple

30
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What values are mixed to create bright white?

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RGB all at 255

31
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When you look at a individual channel, what do you see?

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B&W

32
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When is it recommended to choose vibrance as an adjustment rather than saturation?

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When adjusting the saturation of images that contain people.

33
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Once you’ve made a selection, what area of the image can be edited?

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Only the area within the active selection

34
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How do you add to and subtract from a selection?

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You can add by holding the shift button and dragging, and subtract by holding Alt and dragging

35
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How can you move a selection while you’re drawing it?

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W/O releasing the mouse button, hold down spacebar and drag.

36
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What does the Quick Selection tool do?

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Expands outward from where you click to automatically find and follow defined edges in image.

37
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  1. How does the Magic Wand tool determine which areas of an image to select? 2. What is tolerance, 3. and how does it affect a selection?
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  1. Selects adjacent pixels based on their similarity in color
  2. tolerance value determines how many color tones the tool will select,
  3. The higher the tolerance setting the more tones are selected
38
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What is the advantage of using layers?

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Able to move and edit different parts of an image as discrete objects.

39
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When you create a new layer, where does it appear in front of artwork on another layer?

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A new layer appears immediately above and active layer

40
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How can you make artwork on one layer appear in front of artwork on another layer?

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By dragging layers up and down the stacking order in the layers panel or Layer> Arrange subcommands. Can’t change position of background layer

41
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When you’re completed your artwork, what do you do to minimize the file size without changing the quality or dimensions?

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You flatten the image