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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






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






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






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






7. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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






10. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Perspective is affected by what?






18. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?






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






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

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21. What is a thyristor?






22. 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?






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






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






25. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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26. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?






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






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






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






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






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






32. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?






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






34. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






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






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

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38. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






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






40. Bit depth refers to what?






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






42. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






48. Contrast measures what in a print?






49. What would you use an ICC profile for?






50. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?