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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When buying a lens hood - you should get it in what size relative to the lens?

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2. What is the effect of front lighting?






3. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






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






5. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






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






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






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






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






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






11. What are luminance and illuminance?






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






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






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






15. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?






16. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






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






18. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






20. What is a color profile?






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. What is focal length - technically?






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






29. What is a Bit?






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






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






32. What is a thyristor?






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






34. 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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35. What does side lighting emphasize?






36. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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






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






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






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






49. What are the effects of top lighting?






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