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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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?






2. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?






3. What is gamut?






4. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?






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






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






7. What is a flag?






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






9. A magic wand tool is used for what?






10. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?






11. What is a derivative file?






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






13. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






14. 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?






15. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






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






17. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






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






19. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






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


21. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






22. Aperture controls what?






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






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






25. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






27. What is the inverse square law?






28. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.






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






30. 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?


31. 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?






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


33. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.






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






35. Printers use what set of colors?






36. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?






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






38. What is dodging?






39. 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?






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






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






42. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






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






44. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






45. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?






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






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






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






49. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?






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