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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






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






4. What are the effects of high side lighting?






5. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






6. What is burning?






7. What is focal length - technically?






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






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






10. What do TTL systems react to?






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






12. What is the effect of front lighting?






13. 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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14. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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15. Printers use what set of colors?






16. 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?






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






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

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19. Resolution refers to what?






20. What is the inverse square law?






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






22. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?






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






24. What is a thyristor?






25. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






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

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28. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






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






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






33. Aperture controls what?






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






35. What is gamut?






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






37. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






38. Focal length controls what?






39. 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?






40. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






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






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






43. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






46. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






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






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






49. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






50. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?