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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






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






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






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






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






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






7. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






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






10. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






11. 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?






12. What are luminance and illuminance?






13. Printers use what set of colors?






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






15. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






16. What does side lighting emphasize?






17. What is focal length - technically?






18. What is a thyristor?






19. What two controls adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor?






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






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






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






23. What is the effect of front lighting?






24. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?






25. Focal length controls what?






26. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






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






28. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?






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






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






31. What is a flag?






32. What is dodging?






33. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






35. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






36. A 1:1 lighting ratio produces what lighting result?






37. What is TTL?






38. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?






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






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






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






42. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






43. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






44. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?






45. Generally - how much exposure compensation (in stops) should be used when using a polarizing filter?






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






47. Most inkjet printers intended for photographic printing include light and dark inks of all of the colors except for one. Which color ink is usually available only in one density?






48. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






50. Contrast measures what in a print?