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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. Perspective is affected by what?
JPEG
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Snoot
lens-to-subject distance

2. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
Lower
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
emphasizes textures

3. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
8 stops
Reciprocal relationship
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
All colors

4. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
Total number of pixels
aperture diameter
Small light source at an angle to the subject
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

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

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6. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
Fisheye
Cyan
Yellow
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

7. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Levels adjustment
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Broad lighting
Butterfly lighting

8. What would you use an ICC profile for?
Zoom lens
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Shutter-Priority
The difference between light and dark.

9. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Levels adjustment
9
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Add red

10. What is the best color profile for web images?
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
Yellow
sRGB
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."

11. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
256
Aperture and shutter
One stop

12. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?
Infrared
With the Main at 45 degrees to one side and 45 degrees above subject - it is a classic angle for portraits. It seems natural and flattering and models the face into 3D form.
Contrast
The difference between light and dark.

13. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
sensor
Butterfly lighting
5 -000 Kelvin

14. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
A mirror and pentaprism
aperture diameter

15. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Short lighting.
In the middle
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
White (255)

16. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
Parallax
8 bits
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
No

17. What is a Bit?
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Use and adjustment layer
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.

18. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Incident light meter

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

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20. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Shutter-Priority
Blue & Green
hue/saturation adjustment layer
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).

21. What is gamut?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Soft proofing
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
The amount of information contained in each pixel

22. What is an element and where is it found?
Follow focus
ISO
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Levels adjustment

23. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
High Dynamic Range
ISO
Blue
Infrared

24. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
Short lighting
Fair Use
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.

25. What is focal length - technically?
Depth of field
Snoot
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

26. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
A high contrast image
Metadata
Add magenta

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

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28. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
Front lighting
The impression human vision gives
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Total number of pixels

29. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
Because you can move in close to the subject
Reflected light meter
Small light source at an angle to the subject
1/250th

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

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31. 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?
Short lighting
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Yellow

32. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add yellow
Follow focus
Aperture-priority
emphasizes textures

33. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
Levels adjustment

34. Panning does what?
Dynamic range
Shutter speed & aperture
Front lighting
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background

35. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Infinity
Dynamic range
8 bits
Convex

36. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
Aperture-priority
Half as much light
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
One stop

37. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
Bit
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

38. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
White (255)
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
ISO

39. What is TTL?
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
Add red
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

40. What are IPTC fields used for?
Infrared
Cyan
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.

41. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
White (255)
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

42. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
ISO
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Black (0)
5000K

43. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
Aperture-priority
Metamerism
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
With the Main at 45 degrees to one side and 45 degrees above subject - it is a classic angle for portraits. It seems natural and flattering and models the face into 3D form.

44. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Lasso tool
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
It increases
Total number of pixels

45. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add magenta
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Reciprocal relationship

46. What does ISO stand for?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
International Organization for Standardization

47. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
stopped down
Add blue
Variations command

48. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.

49. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
ISO
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Contrast

50. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Metadata
Blue
The difference between light and dark.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.