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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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13. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?






14. All objects beyond the closest distance in focus will be sharp when this appears within the DOF scale.






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






16. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






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






18. 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?






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






20. Bit depth refers to what?






21. Aperture controls what?






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






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






24. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






25. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






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






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






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






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






31. What is gamut?






32. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






34. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






35. What light source has the highest color temperature?






36. What are luminance and illuminance?






37. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






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






39. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






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






41. What is a flag?






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






43. What is the effect of front lighting?






44. What is interpolated resolution?






45. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?






46. When the size of the aperture is decreased - it is said to be what?






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






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






49. What does side lighting emphasize?






50. What does a neutral density filter do?