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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printers use what set of colors?






2. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






4. 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?






5. 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?






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






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






8. 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?






9. What is a thyristor?






10. What are the effects of high side lighting?






11. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






12. Bit depth refers to what?






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






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






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






16. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?






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






18. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.






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






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






21. What is interpolated resolution?






22. Panning does what?






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






24. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






26. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






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






29. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






37. What is burning?






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






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






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






41. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






42. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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43. Aperture controls what?






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






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






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






47. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






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






49. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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