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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
A mirror and pentaprism
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Snoot

2. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
Depth of field
aperture diameter
Additive (R - G - B)
Add cyan

3. What are the effects of high side lighting?
Bit
One stop
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.
International Organization for Standardization

4. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
In the middle
Depth of field
Very wide at about 180 degrees
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.

5. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
5 -000 Kelvin
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

6. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
Butterfly lighting
Short lighting
Black (0)
Yellow

7. What does ISO stand for?
A RAW file that has been altered
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.
International Organization for Standardization
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

8. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
Levels adjustment
Additive (R - G - B)
A new layer
Parallax

9. Panning does what?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Zoom lens

10. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?
Metadata
Glossy paper
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Infrared

11. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
Glossy paper
The impression human vision gives
JPEG
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors

12. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

13. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
1 1/3 stops
Metamerism
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

14. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
The brightness of all the pixels in an image

15. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
Fair Use
8 bits
No
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

16. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
One stop less
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Yellow
The sensor's sensitivity to light

17. What is dodging?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
The amount of information contained in each pixel

18. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.
Aperture-Priority
Short lighting.
Add magenta
Lower

19. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
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.
Add green
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.

20. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.
A mirror and pentaprism
Add blue
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.

21. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
Flat lighting
Infrared
Because you can move in close to the subject
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

22. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
5000K
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.
Lasso tool

23. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Dynamic range
Add red
stopped down

24. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Reflected light meter
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Add magenta
Selecting portions of the image based on color

25. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.
A RAW file that has been altered
Add cyan
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Parallax

26. What is a flag?
Soft proofing
Infinity
1/250th
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare

27. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
256
Shutter speed & aperture
JPEG
A RAW file that has been altered

28. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
Reciprocal relationship
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
One stop
In the middle

29. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.
1/250th
RAID system
Actual Pixel view
A RAW file that has been altered

30. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
International Organization for Standardization
Aperture-priority
Aperture and shutter
Short lighting.

31. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Cyan
Bit
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Black (0)

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

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33. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?
ISO
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Fisheye

34. 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?
Dynamic range
Shutter-priority
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

35. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Because you can move in close to the subject
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Add blue
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

36. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
Add cyan
Soft proofing
Broad lighting
Total number of pixels

37. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Add magenta
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

38. Resolution refers to what?
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.
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Aperture

39. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
A change in illumination
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.

40. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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41. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
3200 Kelvin

42. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
Fisheye
Dynamic range

43. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Half as much light
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.
International Organization for Standardization

44. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
Broad lighting
1 or 2
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare
aperture diameter

45. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Soft proofing
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

46. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Aperture
A mirror and pentaprism
Blown highlights
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

47. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Incident light meter
Metamerism
Reflected light meter
Blue & Green

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

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49. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
RAID system
A high contrast image
5 -000 Kelvin
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

50. 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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