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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Using this kind of automatic exposure setting on the camera - you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed.






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






3. What is burning?






4. What is a flag?






5. A histogram shows what in an image?






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






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






8. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?






9. 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?






10. Printers use what set of colors?






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






12. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






13. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






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






17. What are the effects of high side lighting?






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






19. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?






20. Panning does what?






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






22. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






23. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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


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






27. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






29. What is the inverse square law?






30. What is a color profile?






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


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






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






34. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






35. Perspective is affected by what?






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






37. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






38. 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?






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






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






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






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






43. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






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






45. What is a BYTE?






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






47. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






48. What is a thyristor?






49. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?






50. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?