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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






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






4. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






6. What is TTL?






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






8. What is burning?






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






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






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






12. What light source has the highest color temperature?






13. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






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






16. What are luminance and illuminance?






17. What is interpolated resolution?






18. What are the effects of top lighting?






19. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






20. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






21. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?






22. A magic wand tool is used for what?






23. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






24. What are IPTC fields used for?






25. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?






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






27. 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?






28. When buying a lens hood - you should get it in what size relative to the lens?

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29. What kind of light will be produced when using a large white umbrella close to a subject?






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






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






32. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






34. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






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






36. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






38. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






40. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






41. 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?






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






43. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?






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






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






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






47. What is a Bit?






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






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






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