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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What light source has the highest color temperature?






2. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






4. 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?






5. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






6. What is gamut?






7. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






8. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






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






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






11. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






13. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






14. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






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






17. 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?






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






19. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






20. What would you use an ICC profile for?






21. What is a derivative file?






22. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






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






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






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






27. Focal length controls what?






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






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






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






31. What are luminance and illuminance?






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






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






34. 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?






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






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






37. What is a flag?






38. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?






39. Bit depth refers to what?






40. What is the inverse square law?






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






42. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






43. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






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






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






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






47. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?






48. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?






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

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