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Certified Professional Photographer

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






2. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






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






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






6. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?






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






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






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






10. 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?






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






12. What does ISO stand for?






13. What is a color profile?






14. What is TTL?






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






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






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






18. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.






19. What are the effects of high side lighting?






20. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






22. What is burning?






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

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






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






26. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






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






29. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






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






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






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






34. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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






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






38. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?






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






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






41. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






42. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






43. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?






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






45. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






46. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.






47. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?






48. What is the effect of front lighting?






49. What are luminance and illuminance?






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