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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
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1. The term "ISO speed" is used to describe what?

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2. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed - what mode are you working in?






3. 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?






4. What is gamut?






5. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






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






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






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






9. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very dark scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?






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






11. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?






12. 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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13. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






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






15. 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?






16. What light source has the highest color temperature?






17. What are the effects of top lighting?






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

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19. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






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






21. What is a flag?






22. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






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






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






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






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






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






28. What is interpolated resolution?






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






30. What do TTL systems react to?






31. What is a thyristor?






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






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






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






35. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?






36. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






38. What is a color profile?






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

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40. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






41. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






43. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






44. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?






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






46. What does a neutral density filter do?






47. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






48. A histogram shows what in an image?






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






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