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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aperture controls what?






2. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?






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






4. What does side lighting emphasize?






5. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?






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






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






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






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






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






11. What is a thyristor?






12. 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?






13. What is a BYTE?






14. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






17. Panning does what?






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






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






20. 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?






21. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






23. What is dodging?






24. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






25. What is gamut?






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






27. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






28. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






29. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?






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






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






32. 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?






33. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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






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






37. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?






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






40. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






41. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






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






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






46. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?






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






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






49. 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?






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