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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 useful to widen a subject?






2. What is a derivative file?






3. What is the inverse square law?






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






5. Printers use what set of colors?






6. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






7. What are the effects of high side lighting?






8. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






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






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






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






14. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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15. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






16. 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?






17. A normal (or standard) focal length lens approximates what?






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






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






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






21. What angle of view does an incident meter read?






22. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






23. A histogram shows what in an image?






24. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






26. Resolution refers to what?






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






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






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






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






31. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






32. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?






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






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






35. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






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






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






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






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






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






41. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






43. What is interpolated resolution?






44. What does the term "stop" mean?






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






46. What is the effect of front lighting?






47. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?






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






49. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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