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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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1. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






2. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






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






4. 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?






5. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






6. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






7. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






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






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






10. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?






11. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






13. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?






14. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.






15. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?






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






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






18. Aperture controls what?






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

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20. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






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






22. What is interpolated resolution?






23. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






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






25. An incident-exposure reading for a fair-skinned subject reads f/8 - 1/125th at 100 ISO. The next subject is very dark skinned. What is the proper exposure for the second subject?

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26. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






27. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






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






29. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?






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






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






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






33. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






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






35. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






36. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






37. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






38. What does ISO stand for?






39. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






40. If your print will be viewed mostly under window light - what is the suggested Kelvin temperature of the lights you should use to evaluate your print?






41. Panning does what?






42. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






44. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






45. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






46. What is gamut?






47. What is focal length - technically?






48. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?






49. What are the effects of high side lighting?






50. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?