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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?
More of the background and foreground are sharp.
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
A raster image
Glossy paper

2. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
Butterfly lighting
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Aperture-Priority
256

3. What is focal length - technically?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Because you can move in close to the subject
Bit

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

5. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
ISO
Fisheye
A change in illumination
Broad lighting

6. Bit depth refers to what?
Total number of pixels
Actual Pixel view
Snoot
The amount of information contained in each pixel

7. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color
In the middle
A change in illumination
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

8. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.
Lasso tool
Front lighting
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Follow focus

9. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?
Cyan
sRGB
Incident light meter
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

10. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Convex
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color

11. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?
No change. The EXPOSURE doesn't change or it would also change the background as well. Move the lights to adjust.
Aperture
Flat lighting
Aperture and shutter

12. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
Actual Pixel view
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)
Additive (R - G - B)
Half as much light

13. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
stopped down

14. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?
Short lighting.
The difference between light and dark.
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).
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

15. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
emphasizes textures
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.
Convex
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

16. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.
Incident light meter
Follow focus
Small light source at an angle to the subject
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

17. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
sensor
Shutter-Priority
A RAW file that has been altered
aperture diameter

18. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Blown highlights
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
Bit

19. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Blue
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
Black (0)

20. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Dynamic range
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed

21. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?
The sensor's sensitivity to light
Convex
A new layer
flat - low contrast light

22. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
Follow focus
Add magenta
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) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject

23. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Yellow
stopped down
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

24. What is an element and where is it found?
White (255)
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Dynamic range
Contrast

25. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
Levels adjustment
Use and adjustment layer
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
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.

26. 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)
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Lower
Yellow

27. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?
Reciprocal relationship
5 -000 Kelvin
9
Shutter speed & aperture

28. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Levels adjustment
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Actual Pixel view

29. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Reflected light meter
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)

30. What is a color profile?
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).
Selecting portions of the image based on color
3200 Kelvin
A high contrast image

31. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
All colors
Zoom lens
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image
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).

32. Printers use what set of colors?
Add yellow
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
A raster image
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

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

34. A magic wand tool is used for what?
aperture diameter
Add yellow
Selecting portions of the image based on color
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

35. 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?
Shutter-priority
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
Use and adjustment layer

36. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
1 1/3 stops
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
1/250th

37. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
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.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.
Incident light meter
Shutter speed & aperture

38. What is the effect of front lighting?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Flattens out the volume of the subject and minimizes textures
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Selecting portions of the image based on color

39. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
lens-to-subject distance
A high contrast image
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
Fair Use

40. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?
bend toward each other and converge at the focal point.
9
Depth of field
Broad lighting

41. Resolution refers to what?
emphasizes textures
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The number of pixels per unit of length in a image

42. What is the best color profile for web images?
Reflected light meter
sRGB
Total number of pixels
Aperture-priority

43. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
Flat lighting
Aperture
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically

44. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
ISO
Fair Use
Blue & Green
Butterfly lighting

45. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
JPEG
Short lighting.
Reflected light meter

46. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Black. Subtractive primaries are Magenta - Yellow - Cyan
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Metamerism

47. What would you use an ICC profile for?
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
5000K
White (255)

48. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

49. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
flat - low contrast light
Yellow
Shutter speed & aperture

50. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Total number of pixels
9
Blue