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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?






2. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






3. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






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






6. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






7. What is the best color profile for web images?






8. Perspective is affected by what?






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






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






11. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






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






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






14. What is an element and where is it found?






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






16. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






17. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






18. What does ISO stand for?






19. Bit depth refers to what?






20. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?






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






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






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






24. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?






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






26. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






27. Printers use what set of colors?






28. 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?






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






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






31. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?






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






33. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






34. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






35. According to the Inverse Square Law - at a distance of 10 feet from a flash - the area illuminated receives how much more/less light than the area illuminated at 20 feet from the flash?






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






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






38. A magic wand tool is used for what?






39. 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?

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40. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






42. What does the term "stop" mean?






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






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






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






46. A histogram with peaks on either end of the histogram and a deep valley in between represents what?






47. What is a color profile?






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






49. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






50. 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?