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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is an element and where is it found?






2. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






3. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?






4. What is a derivative file?






5. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?






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






7. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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






10. What is dodging?






11. Contrast measures what in a print?






12. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?






13. Resolution refers to what?






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






15. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






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






17. What do the bars on the right of a histogram represent?






18. Focal length controls what?






19. What is a Bit?






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






21. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






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






23. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?






24. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?






25. According to the rule of thirds - where should the important parts of an image fall?






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






27. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?






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






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






30. What is a color profile?






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






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






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






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






35. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






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






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






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






40. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






41. Perspective is affected by what?






42. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






43. What is gamut?






44. What is a flag?






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






46. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?






47. What does a neutral density filter do?






48. 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?






49. 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?






50. What is the inverse square law?