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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Resolution refers to what?






2. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.






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






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






5. What does side lighting emphasize?






6. Aperture controls what?






7. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






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






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






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






11. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






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






13. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?






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






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






16. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






18. 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?


19. 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?






20. What is the inverse square law?






21. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






22. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?






23. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






26. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






27. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






28. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






29. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






30. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






31. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?






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






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






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






35. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






36. Contrast measures what in a print?






37. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?






38. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.






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






40. What is a color profile?






41. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?






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






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






44. What do TTL systems react to?






45. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






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






47. What is the effect of front lighting?






48. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?






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






50. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?