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Certified Professional Photographer

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






2. What would you use an ICC profile for?






3. What is a BYTE?






4. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?






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






6. 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?






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






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






9. What does the term "stop" mean?






10. Contrast measures what in a print?






11. Printers use what set of colors?






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






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






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

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

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16. What is a flag?






17. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






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






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






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






21. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






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






24. What is interpolated resolution?






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






26. Panning does what?






27. What is the effect of front lighting?






28. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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29. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






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






31. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






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






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






34. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






35. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






36. Bit depth refers to what?






37. What is gamut?






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






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






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






42. 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?






43. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






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






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






46. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






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






48. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?






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






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