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- A finished photograph does not have to be cropped the same way as it was taken in camera. Cropping is also a viable option for the photographer to do later on in post-production editing software. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- If a photographer is looking to recrop a finished print, a good and effective way to visualize what a new crop would look like would be to do what? - Correct Ans: ✅cut out two L-shaped cards and place these over the print sliding them closer together to visualize the new crop
- The color of a final prints' mat board does not have much bearing on the overall look of the final print's presentation. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- When choosing what size mat board to mount a print to, keep in mind that the more neutral visual space that is placed between the display wall and the print itself, the more your photograph itself will stand out and be the star of the show. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Before mounting a digital print, it is highly recommended that a photographer carefully visually scan a photographs' file before making a final print to check for dust and scratches that could
be easily be removed via the spot healing brush in post- production. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Dry mounting with a press is the best, most professional way to
mount a print. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- When positioning your image on a mat board, place it in the center from side to side but move it slightly higher than center from top to bottom. It is an optical illusion, but when pictures are placed absolutely in the center there will always appear to be less space at the bottom than on the sides and the top. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- What color of mat board is often the best one for showing off the brilliant black or white tones of a particular photograph? - Correct Ans: ✅A neutral gray mat board
- One major problem with digital photography is being organized with regards to storing your photo files for the long term and being able to find an older image easily later. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- As a general rule for writing captions to accompany your photographs in a display, keep them short and to the point because photographs usually speak for themselves. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Which device, according to your textbook is not a viable option for use by a photographer to create a backup copy of their photos on? - Correct Ans: ✅True
- One excellent tip that will really help your photographic composition, according to Scott Kelby, is to find some great photographers you like and study their work intensely. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Which photographic composition rule applies to the following situation? A photographer composes their photo so that the subject is at the intersection of an imaginary grid of lines that resemble a tic-tac-toe board. - Correct Ans: ✅NOT: rule of leading lines
- If you want to add a sense of scale to your photo, and show how big or small something is, you should consider adding a person to your image. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- A good photographer will maintain a healthy balance between using a horizontal format and a vertical one, thus avoiding being "vertically challenged." - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Scott Kelby said that with today's sharper lenses, using a
tripod is not necessary anymore. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- One of the composition videos stated that it is best to limit yourself to having only one subject per photograph. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- According to Scott Kelby, the absolute best pattern photograph also contains something that actually breaks the pattern. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Scott Kelby said to never put the horizon line in the
middle of a landscape photo. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Don't publically display photography that is not your
absolute best work. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- One composition rule that should never be broken is that the subject should always be in the center of the photograph. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- A photograph that shows a frame within a frame is more likely than not to be considered dynamic, giving the viewer the idea of moving into the photograph spatially. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Which of the following is not a good way to contrast the
subject with the background in a photo? - Correct Ans: ✅Use large depth of field (everything in focus)
- As a photographer, you always want to conserve space on your camera's memory card by only limiting yourself to one shot of each subject. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- Only your camera's manufacturer's software is able to successfully transfer your images onto your computer. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- Adobe's Camera Raw program can now be used to adjust more than just RAW files; in the newer versions of the software a photographer can use the program to adjust JPEG and TIFF files too. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- The number one maker and seller of cameras today are the cellular phone companies and not the traditional camera makers like Nikon and Canon. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- It is not yet possible to generate a usable still image from a digital recording by a digital video camera, although in the future it may be. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- One of the advantages of using Adobe Camera Raw to edit images with is that the program just builds a sidecar instructions file of all your edits and applies those to your image, rather than changing the pixels in the original image itself. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- The "vibrance" slider in Adobe Camera Raw is subtler at adjusting the colorfulness of the colors in a photograph than the saturation slider, and it also does so while protecting skin tones from becoming too colorful. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- According to the text, what is the best format to save
your photo in after editing it in Photoshop? - Correct Ans: ✅NOT: JPEG
- What view should your photo be in in order to discern the proper amount of sharpening to apply to it using the "unsharp mask" option within Photoshop? - Correct Ans: ✅at least 100%
- Which of the following "healing" tools in Photoshop does not require the user to set a sample point in order to use, but relies on the programs sensing the pixels around a repair and trying to blend in the new repair automatically? - Correct Ans: ✅NOT: the healing brush tool
- One big advantage of printing your images at home with an inkjet printer is the ability to choose from a wide array of different papers that your photo can be printed on. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- The "Dodge tool" is the name of the tool a photographer would employ within Photoshop in order to darken a selected
- When photographing a color image as black and white, it is important that the quality of the light illuminating the scene be dramatic and full of contrast. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- There are no set absolutes when it comes to lighting
people for photographs, just some basic guidelines. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- From which direction should a photographer position the light to come from when photographing glass or transparent objects in the studio? - Correct Ans: ✅from behind
- When, according to the text, is the best time to
photograph outside places or landscapes? - Correct Ans: ✅early in the morning or late in the day close to sunrise or sunset
- Which of the following statements is not true of portable
flash photography? - Correct Ans: ✅All of the above are true
- Which of the following options is the poorest one for trying to capture all the range of tones within a building's interior that also has exterior-facing windows? - Correct Ans: ✅Shoot when it's nighttime outside
- The best and most effective way according to the textbook, to prevent "red-eye" from happening in your flash
photos is to bounce the light of the flash off a low ceiling or nearby wall. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Direct lighting is much more prevalently used in today's contemporary portraiture than that of diffused lighting. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- Which of the five types of studio lighting have the following advantages: continuous output allows photographer to see effects, can be daylight balanced, usually diffused, and low in cost? - Correct Ans: ✅high intensity fluorescent
- Portable flash cannot be used at just any shutter speed with a DSLR camera. The photographer usually must use a shutter speed of slower than 1/60 of a second. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- Which photographic accessory did the textbook say was
essential for landscape photography? - Correct Ans: ✅All the above
- Light coming from which direction will enhance both
depth and texture of your subject? - Correct Ans: ✅From either side
blurry images have no place in action photography. - Correct Ans: ✅False
- Which of the following filters is responsible for taking reflections out of highly-reflective surfaces like glass or water? - Correct Ans: ✅a polarizing filter
- Random brightly colored pixels that show up mainly in the shadow areas of digital photos is usually referred to as "grain."
- What focal length of lens does the textbook mention is ideal for taking pictures of babies or small children with? - Correct Ans: ✅85 mm
- Even though the camera has a menu option to shoot in grayscale, it's always best to shoot a scene in full color and then make the conversion to black and white later in post- production. - Correct Ans: ✅True
- There are two different flash-to-camera connections. One is the PC cord socket, what is the other (a bracket located on the top center of the camera)? - Correct Ans: ✅hot shoe
- What focal length of lens does the textbook mention is ideal for taking pictures of the interiors of buildings with? - Correct Ans: ✅28mm
- Which flash term below means that the camera and flash communicate electronically, with the camera telling the flash among other things what ISO is being used, and the flash telling the camera when its fully charged and ready to fire? - Correct Ans: ✅dedicated flash
- What is the best lighting situation for an outdoor group
portrait? - Correct Ans: ✅cloudy and overcast
- A DSLR camera's built-in pop-up flash unit is only capable of illuminating subjects at distances of less than 1 meter. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- People pictured within outdoor place or landscape shots can often give the viewer a sense of scale as to how large or small some subjects really are. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- The use of flash as lighting for photographing animals or wildlife is usually discouraged because it may startle or scare them. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- It doesn't matter what actual color a ceiling or wall is that you are bouncing light off of for a flash photo; just so it's a light color and not a dark one. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- What's the best exposure mode for shooting pictures of
pets or animals in their individual environments? - Correct Ans: ✅shutter priority mode
- According to the textbook, in relation to landscape photography, the time of day that you photograph it is just as visually important as the location is. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- Which type of camera works best only when lighting conditions are optimal, the subjects are relatively close to the photographer and when large prints are not desired? - Correct Ans: ✅a compact (beginner or point and shoot) camera
- Which type of camera allows the photographer to see a scene through the viewfinder exactly as it will appear in the final photograph, thus reducing errors in framing? - Correct Ans: ✅a digital single reflex camera
- All digital camera sensors are made up of hundreds of rows and columns of individual photo sites called "picture elements" or what? - Correct Ans: ✅pixels
- What does the abbreviation DSLR stand for? - Correct
Ans: ✅digital single lens reflex
- An aperture setting of f8 only allows one-half the amount of light to enter the camera as an aperture setting of f11. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- The lower the total number of pixels on a particular camera's sensor is, the larger the print that can be made from that particular camera's picture file. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- On a modern digital camera, the ISO setting can be changed as often as between each picture that's taken. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- What part of a camera controls the length of time the
sensor/film is exposed to light? - Correct Ans: ✅the shutter speed setting
- Most compact digital cameras have an image sensor that
is larger than a standard 35mm film frame. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- Which in-camera file format records all the visual information a camera saw and records it directly to the memory card without any in-camera processing or lossy compression? - Correct Ans: ✅RAW
- What auxiliary piece of camera equipment is needed besides a tripod in order for the photographer to use super
- What is the most common width to height ratio for DSLR
cameras? - Correct Ans: ✅3:
- Which camera exposure mode is the camera in when you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed based on the light level of the scene? - Correct Ans: ✅aperature priority
- Noise in a digital photograph is caused by what thing(s)? -
Correct Ans: ✅all the above
- Which of the following camera apertures would allow for the greatest amount of depth of field within a photograph? - Correct Ans: ✅f
- If the amount of in-camera sharpening in a photograph is set too high, it's not the big an issue and can easily be removed later in post processing. - Correct Ans: ✅false
- Which of the following lens apertures would allow the
least amount of light into the camera? - Correct Ans: ✅f
- Which of the following tools can assist the photographer in getting a more accurate white balance for their picture if they remember to use it? - Correct Ans: ✅an expodisc
- A number that describes how much magnification of the subject that a lens will employ or how much of the scene a lens takes in is called? - Correct Ans: ✅focal length number
- It is perfectly acceptable for the photographer to change the white balance of the photograph from what was truly accurately witnessed by the photographer in order to create a specific mood to the photograph. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- Always shoot and record a scene in full color with the camera regardless of whether you want the final image to be in color or black and white. - Correct Ans: ✅true
- Which of the following camera shutter speeds would be best to use if you were trying to freeze the motion of a basketball player going up for a slam dunk? - Correct Ans: ✅1/500 of a second
- The camera feature that allows the photographer to see or compose their image on the back LCD screen of the camera instead of in the viewfinder is called what? - Correct Ans: ✅live view
- The camera inherently records too much detail about a scene, flooding the viewer with too much useless information; therefore, less detail often translates into stronger, more compelling photographs. - Correct Ans: ✅true
