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Certified Professional Photographer

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If an image is too blue - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?






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






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






4. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?






5. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






6. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






7. What is burning?






8. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






9. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?






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






11. 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?






12. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






13. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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






15. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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






18. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?






19. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






20. What are the effects of top lighting?






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

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






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






24. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






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






26. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






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






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






31. A magic wand tool is used for what?






32. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?






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






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






35. What do TTL systems react to?






36. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






37. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






38. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.






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






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






41. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






42. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






43. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






44. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






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






47. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






48. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?






49. What is a thyristor?






50. What are luminance and illuminance?