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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?






2. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?






3. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






5. What is a thyristor?






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






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






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






9. What is a BYTE?






10. What is interpolated resolution?






11. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.






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






13. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






15. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






18. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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






27. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.






28. 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?






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






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






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






32. 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?






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






34. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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35. What does ISO stand for?






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






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






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






39. Bit depth refers to what?






40. Aperture controls what?






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

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42. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






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






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






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






47. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






48. 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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49. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






50. What is focal length - technically?