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Certified Professional Photographer

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Dynamic range
aperture diameter
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

2. What are the effects of top lighting?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Contrast
Parallax

3. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Yellow
8 bits
Shutter speed & aperture

4. If your print will be viewed mostly under window light - what is the suggested Kelvin temperature of the lights you should use to evaluate your print?
5000K
stopped down
One stop less
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

5. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
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.
Infinity
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.

6. What is gamut?
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Add blue
3200 Kelvin

7. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Cyan
Fair Use
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

8. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
A RAW file that has been altered
Blue
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Add magenta

9. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
dynamic range (not to be confused with 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
Yellow

10. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?
Lower
Because you can move in close to the subject
A high contrast image
The difference between light and dark.

11. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
5000K
Magenta
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Additive (R - G - B)

12. What is an element and where is it found?
International Organization for Standardization
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Blue & Green

13. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
1 or 2
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

14. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
256
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.
ISO
Small light source at an angle to the subject

15. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
Aperture-Priority
Metadata
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

16. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture.
Add green
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
Fair Use
Shutter-Priority

17. 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?
Zoom lens
Yellow
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.
Fair Use

18. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Add yellow
ISO
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)

19. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
Half as much light
A new layer
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.
A RAW file that has been altered

20. What would you use an ICC profile for?
ISO
5000K
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

21. What is a derivative file?
A RAW file that has been altered
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
JPEG
Aperture

22. Contrast measures what in a print?
Add green
The difference between light and dark.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
In the middle

23. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
Very wide at about 180 degrees
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Add cyan
Zoom lens

24. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Lower
Fair Use
It increases

25. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?
Add cyan
Contrast
256
Shutter-priority

26. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
Variations command
3:1 or 4:1
The difference between light and dark.
A raster image

27. Focal length controls what?
No
Total number of pixels
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

28. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
No
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Add blue

29. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
Half as much light
Fisheye
Flat lighting
JPEG

30. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
5 -000 Kelvin
All colors
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Add cyan

31. What are luminance and illuminance?
Lower
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
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)
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

32. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
A mirror and pentaprism
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
Black (0)
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

33. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
Shutter speed & aperture
Snoot
3200 Kelvin
Reciprocal relationship

34. 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?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
All colors

35. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Metamerism
Convex
JPEG
Follow focus

36. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
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.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Black (0)
A raster image

37. What is a flag?
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
Cyan
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Snoot

38. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Aperture and shutter
1 1/3 stops
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)

39. Bit depth refers to what?
3200 Kelvin
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.
The amount of information contained in each pixel
RAID system

40. What is the inverse square law?
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
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.
Cyan
256

41. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
RAID system
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Aperture and shutter
Add yellow

42. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
3:1 or 4:1
Add blue
A new layer

43. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
Shutter speed & aperture
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Add yellow
The impression human vision gives

44. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Because you can move in close to the subject
Levels adjustment
The difference between light and dark.
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.

45. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?
No
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.
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.

46. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
aperture diameter
Aperture

47. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
The sensor's sensitivity to light
sensor
Lower
Levels adjustment

48. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Yellow
Blue & Green

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

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50. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Front lighting