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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






2. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






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






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






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






6. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






7. What is interpolated resolution?






8. What is the inverse square law?






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

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






11. Panning does what?






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






13. 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?






14. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






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






16. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






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






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






19. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






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






21. Printers use what set of colors?






22. Resolution refers to what?






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






24. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






26. Bit depth refers to what?






27. What does side lighting emphasize?






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






29. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?






30. What does ISO stand for?






31. A histogram shows what in an image?






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






33. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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

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






37. Aperture controls what?






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






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






40. What is burning?






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






42. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






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






44. 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?

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45. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






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






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






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

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49. What are IPTC fields used for?






50. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?