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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






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






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






4. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?






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

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6. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






7. What is a flag?






8. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?






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






10. What is burning?






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






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






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






14. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






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






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






17. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.






18. What are the effects of high side lighting?






19. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?






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






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






22. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






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






25. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?






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






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






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






29. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






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






32. What does ISO stand for?






33. What do TTL systems react to?






34. Resolution refers to what?






35. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.






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






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






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






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






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






42. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?






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






44. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






45. Bit depth refers to what?






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






47. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?






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






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






50. Perspective is affected by what?