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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






3. Perspective is affected by what?






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






5. What does side lighting emphasize?






6. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.






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






8. Resolution refers to what?






9. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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?






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






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






18. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






19. Panning does what?






20. 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?






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






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






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






24. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






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






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

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






28. Printers use what set of colors?






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






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






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






32. What is TTL?






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






34. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






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






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






38. Focal length controls what?






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






40. What light source has the highest color temperature?






41. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






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






44. What is a derivative file?






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






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






47. What is a BYTE?






48. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?






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






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