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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?






2. What is a Bit?






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






4. Name 2 ways you can decrease depth of field.






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






6. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






8. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Printers use what set of colors?






16. What is a color profile?






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






18. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.






19. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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






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






22. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






24. What is TTL?






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






26. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






27. What is interpolated resolution?






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






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






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






31. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






33. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






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






35. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.






36. 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?






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






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






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






40. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?






41. 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?






42. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?






43. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?