Test your basic knowledge |

Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






2. What does the term "stop" mean?






3. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?






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






5. Focal length controls what?






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






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






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






9. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






10. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






11. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?






12. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?






13. What are luminance and illuminance?






14. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






15. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






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






18. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?






19. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






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






21. What is interpolated resolution?






22. What is focal length - technically?






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






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






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






26. Perspective is affected by what?






27. Panning does what?






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






29. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






30. What is a Bit?






31. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






32. What would you use an ICC profile for?






33. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?






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






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






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






37. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






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






39. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?






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






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






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






43. Contrast measures what in a print?






44. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?






45. 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?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


46. What does side lighting emphasize?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






49. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






50. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:



Major Subjects



Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Most popular tests