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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






2. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?






3. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?






4. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?






5. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?






6. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.






7. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?


8. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?






9. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?






10. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






11. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?






12. What is focal length - technically?






13. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






14. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?






15. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






16. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






17. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?






18. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?






19. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.






20. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






21. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?






22. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






23. What would you use an ICC profile for?






24. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






25. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






26. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?






27. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






29. What is burning?






30. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?






31. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






32. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






33. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?






34. The term "ISO speed" is used to describe what?


35. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?






36. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?






37. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






38. What is the best color profile for web images?






39. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very dark scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?






40. What does side lighting emphasize?






41. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






42. What is an element and where is it found?






43. What is the inverse square law?






44. Focal length controls what?






45. What are the effects of top lighting?






46. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.






47. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?






48. Bit depth refers to what?






49. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.






50. What angle of view does a spot meter read?