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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






2. What is interpolated resolution?






3. 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?






4. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?






5. What is a derivative file?






6. What is burning?






7. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?






8. 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?






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






10. What are the effects of top lighting?






11. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






12. Focal length controls what?






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






14. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






16. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. What does a neutral density filter do?






27. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






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






30. What are IPTC fields used for?






31. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






32. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed - what mode are you working in?






33. 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?






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






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






36. 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?






37. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.






38. What is a BYTE?






39. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






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






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






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






43. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






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






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






48. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?






49. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






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