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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






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






3. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.






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






5. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?






6. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?






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






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






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






10. What light source has the highest color temperature?






11. What is an element and where is it found?






12. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very light toned scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?






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






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. What is gamut?






16. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






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






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






19. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






20. 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?






21. Aperture controls what?






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






23. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






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






25. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






26. 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?






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






28. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






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






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






31. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






33. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






34. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?






35. What is the inverse square law?






36. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.






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






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






39. What is a derivative file?






40. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






41. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






42. Panning does what?






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






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






45. What is the best color profile for web images?






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






47. What are the effects of high side lighting?






48. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






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






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