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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?






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

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3. What are luminance and illuminance?






4. What does the term "stop" mean?






5. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed - what mode are you working in?






6. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?






7. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






8. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






10. Bit depth refers to what?






11. 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?






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






13. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?






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






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






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






17. 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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18. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






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






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






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






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






23. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?






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






25. Aperture controls what?






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






27. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






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






29. Printers use what set of colors?






30. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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

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

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33. What are IPTC fields used for?






34. What is interpolated resolution?






35. What is a flag?






36. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






37. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?






38. What does ISO stand for?






39. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture - what mode are you working in?






40. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?






41. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






42. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?






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






44. Panning does what?






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






46. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






47. What is a thyristor?






48. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






49. What angle of view does an incident meter read?






50. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?