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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
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1. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






2. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






4. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.






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






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






7. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






8. What is burning?






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






10. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






11. What is a derivative file?






12. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






13. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






14. What is a Bit?






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






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






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






18. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?






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






20. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.






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






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






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






24. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






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






27. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?






28. Resolution refers to what?






29. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






31. What is dodging?






32. A histogram shows what in an image?






33. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






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






35. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






37. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






39. The useable exposure range of a sensor - or the range of subject brightness is called what?






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






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

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

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43. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?






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






45. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






46. Focal length controls what?






47. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






48. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






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