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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Because you can move in close to the subject
1 or 2
One stop

2. What is TTL?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Add cyan
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.

3. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Lasso tool
Variations command
Selecting portions of the image based on color
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

4. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Cyan
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
9
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.

5. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
Zoom lens
Follow focus
JPEG
Yellow

6. What would you use an ICC profile for?
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
JPEG
Because you can move in close to the subject
Dynamic range

7. What is a thyristor?
Lower
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Broad lighting
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

8. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Fisheye
Convex
One stop
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.

9. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
Aperture-priority
The amount of information contained in each pixel
lens-to-subject distance

10. What does side lighting emphasize?
Use and adjustment layer
Levels adjustment
emphasizes textures
The difference between light and dark.

11. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
9
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
sensor

12. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
It increases
Fair Use
Small light source at an angle to the subject
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.

13. What is a derivative file?
A RAW file that has been altered
Levels adjustment
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
5 -000 Kelvin

14. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Bit

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

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16. What is dodging?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare

17. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
Butterfly lighting
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

18. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
No
Variations command
Fisheye
256

19. What is burning?
Add red
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
A raster image
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

20. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
RAID system
Add red
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

21. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Yellow
Reflected light meter
Broad lighting

22. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
Front lighting
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
High Dynamic Range
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.

23. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
A RAW file that has been altered
Magenta
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.

24. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Add cyan
1/250th
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.

25. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Blue & Green
A RAW file that has been altered
Infinity

26. Panning does what?
8 bits
sensor
Broad lighting
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

27. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Butterfly lighting
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Parallax

28. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add cyan
A new layer
The amount of information contained in each pixel
Very wide at about 180 degrees

29. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
RAID system
Depth of field
Blue
Reflected light meter

30. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Lasso tool
Short lighting.
Follow focus

31. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Aperture and shutter
Metadata

32. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Short lighting.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

33. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Snoot
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Add red
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

34. 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?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Very wide at about 180 degrees
The difference between light and dark.
5000K

35. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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36. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Butterfly lighting
Lasso tool
3200 Kelvin
A change in illumination

37. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
A raster image
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
It increases
Soft proofing

38. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
Because you can move in close to the subject
Levels adjustment
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Contrast

39. What does ISO stand for?
Additive (R - G - B)
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
International Organization for Standardization
A raster image

40. What is gamut?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Flat lighting
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Levels adjustment

41. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
Yellow
Total number of pixels

42. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?
8 stops
RAID system
A RAW file that has been altered
Front lighting

43. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Yellow
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

44. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Because you can move in close to the subject
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Add green

45. 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?
Shutter-priority
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.
Reciprocal relationship
Fair Use

46. What do TTL systems react to?
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.
Short lighting
sensor
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

47. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
Glossy paper
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Reciprocal relationship
One stop less

48. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Yellow
1/250th
Fair Use
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.

49. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
A new layer
Convex
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

50. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Levels adjustment
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Total number of pixels