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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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1. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






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






3. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?






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






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






6. Panning does what?






7. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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






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






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






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






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

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14. 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?






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






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






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






18. 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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19. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






20. Bit depth refers to what?






21. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






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






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






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

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






27. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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

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29. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?






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






31. What is a BYTE?






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






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






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






35. What is TTL?






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






37. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






40. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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41. 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?






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






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






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






45. What is gamut?






46. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






48. What is interpolated resolution?






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






50. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.