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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
A RAW file that has been altered
A new layer
9
RAID system

2. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?
The impression human vision gives
A high contrast image
Add red
Bit

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

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4. 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?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Yellow

5. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
Aperture and shutter
A high contrast image
8 bits
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view

6. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?
A mirror and pentaprism
3:1 or 4:1
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
1 1/3 stops

7. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
RAID system
5 -000 Kelvin
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures

8. 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?
In the middle
Front lighting
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
5000K

9. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?
3200 Kelvin
Additive (R - G - B)
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Selecting portions of the image based on color

10. 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?
Blown highlights
Cyan
stopped down
Shutter-priority

11. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Black (0)

12. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?
Small light source at an angle to the subject
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.

13. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
A high contrast image
Relative aperture. The opening on a long lens must be larger than a corresponding opening on a short lens to produce the same f-stops.
Metadata
Butterfly lighting

14. What is the best color profile for web images?
Levels adjustment
sRGB
8 bits
Glossy paper

15. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
lens-to-subject distance
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
sensor
In the middle

16. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Fisheye
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Front lighting

17. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Contrast
In the middle
Soft proofing
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.

18. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Flat lighting
256
Levels adjustment

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?
3200 Kelvin
Actual Pixel view
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Aperture-priority

20. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?
One stop
Butterfly lighting
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Levels adjustment

21. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
It increases
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

22. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?
No
Because you can move in close to the subject
Infrared
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

23. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
JPEG
Fisheye
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.
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).

24. What are IPTC fields used for?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Follow focus
The impression human vision gives
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

25. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
Lasso tool
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Variations command

26. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
In the middle
The difference between light and dark.
Cyan
A change in illumination

27. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...
ISO
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
hue/saturation adjustment layer

28. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Add blue
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

29. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
four times more
Dynamic range
Blue & Green
Variations command

30. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
Add magenta
All colors
White (255)

31. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
3200 Kelvin
5 -000 Kelvin

32. Focal length controls what?
A raster image
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
International Organization for Standardization

33. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Zoom lens
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

34. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
four times more

35. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
ISO
Infinity
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.
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light

36. What is an element and where is it found?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
The amount of information contained in each pixel

37. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
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1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject

38. What light source has the highest color temperature?
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
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
Broad lighting
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin

39. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
aperture diameter
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
In the middle

40. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
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.
stopped down
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

41. What is gamut?
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Broad lighting
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Additive (R - G - B)

42. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?
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.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.
White (255)

43. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
All colors
Add red
Magenta
Bit

44. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?
A RAW file that has been altered
Levels adjustment
Aperture
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

45. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?
Use and adjustment layer
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject

46. What is burning?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Add blue
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.

47. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
lens-to-subject distance
Glossy paper
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Aperture-priority

48. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
Infinity
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Parallax

49. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
A change in illumination
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Depth of field

50. What is a derivative file?
Incident light meter
Because you can move in close to the subject
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
A RAW file that has been altered