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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






3. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






4. What is gamut?






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






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






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

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






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






10. What is a flag?






11. What is a thyristor?






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






13. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






15. What does the term "stop" mean?






16. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






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






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






19. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?






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






21. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?






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






38. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






39. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?






40. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?






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






42. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?






43. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?






44. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






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






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






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






48. What is burning?






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






50. What does a neutral density filter do?