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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?
Add red
The sensor's sensitivity to light
1/250th
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.

2. 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?
Follow focus
four times more
A new layer
Butterfly lighting

3. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

4. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
Shutter-Priority
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Aperture-priority
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.

5. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Blown highlights
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).

6. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
Use and adjustment layer
Infrared
Add red

7. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
Metamerism
Lower
Cyan

8. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?
The impression human vision gives
Lower
3200 Kelvin
Infrared

9. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Follow focus
Glossy paper
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.

10. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

11. If an image is too magenta - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Add green
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
aperture diameter

12. If an image is too cyan - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Half as much light
Add red
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(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

13. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?
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Half as much light
Lower
Add magenta

14. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Cyan
Follow focus
Total number of pixels
JPEG

15. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?
8 bits
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Follow focus
International Organization for Standardization

16. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
Levels adjustment
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
1/250th

17. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
Black (0)
sRGB
The difference between light and dark.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

18. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
High Dynamic Range
A mirror and pentaprism
Cyan
Snoot

19. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?
Because you can move in close to the subject
stopped down
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Parallax

20. What is interpolated resolution?
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

21. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
Levels adjustment
5 -000 Kelvin
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare

22. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?
Aperture-priority
Half as much light
8 stops
The sensor's sensitivity to light

23. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Incident light meter

24. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
It increases
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

25. 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?
Add yellow
A change in illumination
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

26. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Blue & Green
No
emphasizes textures
Soft proofing

27. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
Glossy paper
Blue & Green

28. What is the optical resolution on a scanner defined as?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Aperture-Priority

29. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
Butterfly lighting
Reciprocal relationship
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare
Snoot

30. What do TTL systems react to?
5000K
Glossy paper
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

31. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Fisheye
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

32. What light source has the highest color temperature?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
1 1/3 stops
Aperture-priority
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)

33. What would you use an ICC profile for?
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Additive (R - G - B)
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Contrast

34. What is an element and where is it found?
four times more
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

35. 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?
Aperture-priority
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
RAID system

36. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?
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More of the background and foreground are sharp.
sensor
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.

37. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Dynamic range
stopped down
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

38. If an image is too green - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Add magenta
RAID system
Metadata
Levels adjustment

39. What does side lighting emphasize?
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Short lighting.
Contrast
emphasizes textures

40. A magic wand tool is used for what?
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
Selecting portions of the image based on color
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).

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

42. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.
White (255)
Infinity
Yellow
Follow focus

43. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Flat lighting

44. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
Depth of field
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
5000K
RAID system

45. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast
Reflected light meter
Blue
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

46. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
All colors
Levels adjustment
A raster image
Aperture

47. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
3200 Kelvin
In the middle
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

48. What is a BYTE?
flat - low contrast light
Short lighting.
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
Bit

49. What does the term "stop" mean?
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
A change in illumination
Convex
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

50. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
3200 Kelvin
Additive (R - G - B)
256
Broad lighting