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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Incident light meter
Aperture-Priority
Bit
emphasizes textures

2. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
A change in illumination
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Levels adjustment

3. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
Shutter speed & aperture
1/250th
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Aperture-Priority

4. Panning does what?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
flat - low contrast light

5. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
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.
Flat lighting

6. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Front lighting
3200 Kelvin
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

7. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Convex
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Soft proofing
Follow focus

8. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
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9. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Add red
Follow focus
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
One stop less

10. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
ISO
Black (0)

11. What are the effects of top lighting?
With the Main at 45 degrees to one side and 45 degrees above subject - it is a classic angle for portraits. It seems natural and flattering and models the face into 3D form.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
emphasizes textures
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

12. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Fisheye
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
International Organization for Standardization

13. What is burning?
A mirror and pentaprism
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
256
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

14. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
sensor
High Dynamic Range
Contrast
Short lighting.

15. If an image is too red - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Black (0)
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.
Add cyan
1 1/3 stops

16. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Short lighting
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

17. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
High Dynamic Range
Blue & Green
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

18. Resolution refers to what?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Total number of pixels
Variations command
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19. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?
Levels adjustment
Small light source at an angle to the subject
3200 Kelvin
Aperture and shutter

20. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
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.
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

21. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very dark scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
1 1/3 stops
Bit

22. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
5000K
Magenta
Metamerism
Blue & Green

23. What is the best color profile for web images?
sRGB
Selecting portions of the image based on color
5 -000 Kelvin
Add yellow

24. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
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.
A mirror and pentaprism
3200 Kelvin
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

25. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Dynamic range
Aperture-Priority

26. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
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.

27. What is a Bit?
256
A high contrast image
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.
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.

28. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Variations command
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
One stop less

29. What is dodging?
Half as much light
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Add red
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

30. What are IPTC fields used for?
JPEG
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
A high contrast image
3200 Kelvin

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

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32. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
Aperture
8 bits
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
Yellow

33. What would you use an ICC profile for?
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Fair Use
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Add red

34. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
RAID system
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
5 -000 Kelvin

35. A histogram shows what in an image?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
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The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

36. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
JPEG
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Aperture-priority

37. What is TTL?
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
1/250th
Add blue
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

38. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Fair Use
Black (0)

39. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

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

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41. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Total number of pixels
Blown highlights
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

42. What does the term "stop" mean?
A change in illumination
four times more
Infinity
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

43. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
In the middle
Add green
The difference between light and dark.
Levels adjustment

44. 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?
Shutter-priority
Yellow
Fisheye
A new layer

45. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Follow focus
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Infrared
Butterfly lighting

46. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Levels adjustment
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
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

47. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add red
One stop less
The amount of information contained in each pixel
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

48. What does a neutral density filter do?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Infinity
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

49. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
flat - low contrast light
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Use and adjustment layer

50. Focal length controls what?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
In the middle
Selecting portions of the image based on color
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)