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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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1. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






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






3. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?






4. Contrast measures what in a print?






5. Panning does what?






6. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






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






8. What are the effects of high side lighting?






9. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






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






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






12. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?






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






14. What does side lighting emphasize?






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






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






17. What are luminance and illuminance?






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






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






20. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?






21. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?






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






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






24. What is burning?






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






26. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.






27. What is dodging?






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






30. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






31. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






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






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






35. What is focal length - technically?






36. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






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

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






39. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?






40. What is the effect of front lighting?






41. What is TTL?






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






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






44. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






45. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.






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






47. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






48. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






49. What is a thyristor?






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