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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






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






3. What does the term "stop" mean?






4. 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?






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






6. What is dodging?






7. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






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






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






10. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






11. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






12. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?






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






14. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






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






17. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






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






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






21. Contrast measures what in a print?






22. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






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






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






25. Aperture controls what?






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






27. What is a color profile?






28. What is TTL?






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






30. 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?






31. What is gamut?






32. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?






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






34. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.






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






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






37. What is a Bit?






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






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






40. 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?






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






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


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






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






45. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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






47. What is a flag?






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






49. What is interpolated resolution?






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