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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






2. Panning does what?






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






4. What is a BYTE?






5. What do TTL systems react to?






6. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?






7. A histogram shows what in an image?






8. What is gamut?






9. 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?






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






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






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






13. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?






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






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






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






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






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






19. What is burning?






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






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






22. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






23. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






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






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






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






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






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






29. What is a Bit?






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

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






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






33. What is a thyristor?






34. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






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






37. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?






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






39. What is the inverse square law?






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






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






42. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






44. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?






45. Aperture controls what?






46. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?






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






48. What is focal length - technically?






49. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?






50. How does 'unsharp mask' work?