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Certified Professional Photographer

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1. What does side lighting emphasize?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
emphasizes textures
5 -000 Kelvin
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

2. 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?
dynamic range (not to be confused with gamut)
Add yellow
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Shutter-priority

3. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.
5000K
Follow focus
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
High Dynamic Range

4. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
1) Use a shorter focal length; 2) Move farther away from the subject
Parallax

5. What does the term "stop" mean?
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
No
Parallax
A change in illumination

6. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?
A high contrast image
Short lighting
A mirror and pentaprism
Total number of pixels

7. 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?
White (additive primaries are Red - Green Blue)
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
stopped down
Yellow

8. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
Add yellow
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
256
Variations command

9. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
One stop less
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area

10. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
Yellow
Parallax
Actual Pixel view

11. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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12. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Magenta
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Variations command
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.

13. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?
ISO
Black (0)
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Metadata

14. Copyright law has certain built-in exceptions that allow for special situations in using copyrighted material. They are called what?
Fair Use
Add blue
Infinity
Metadata

15. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees
Snoot
Bit

16. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?
The sensor that converts the image from analog to digital (1's and 0's) CCD=charge coupled device; CMOS=complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
Parallax
Variations command
Subtractive primaries (plus black)

17. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
High Dynamic Range
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Shutter-Priority
Metamerism

18. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
One stop
Blue & Green
sRGB
5 -000 Kelvin

19. An SLR camera uses what to allow you to see exactly what you'll photograph?
A mirror and pentaprism
To create a 1-stop difference - multiply the original distance by 1.4. Example - if you were originally 5 feet away - a 1-stop difference would have you step back to 7 feet.
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)

20. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?
Follow focus
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
A new layer
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker

21. A magic wand tool is used for what?
The pixels per inch a scanner is capable of capturing often described as two numbers (i.e. 1200x2400)
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
9

22. What is dodging?
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.

23. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
The intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from light to subject. At twice the distance from the subject - the light illuminates only 1/4 of the original.
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

24. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
Short lighting.
ISO

25. What is a color profile?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Soft proofing
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
Incident light meter

26. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
Add cyan
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
Soft proofing
Reciprocal relationship

27. The relative aperture is equal to the lens focal length divided by what?
An 8-BIT sequence that represents 256 possibilities - black & white & 254 shades of grey. The size of a file is the number of bytes it contains.
aperture diameter
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
3200 Kelvin

28. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?
Blown highlights
Actual Pixel view
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
stopped down

29. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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30. An in-camera reflected meter reading a very light toned scene indicates an exposure of 1/250th at f/8. For a correct exposure - what should you do?
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
The difference between light and dark.
International Organization for Standardization
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

31. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Small light source at an angle to the subject
5000K
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Soft proofing

32. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?
JPEG
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

33. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?
Reflected light meter
A raster image
flat - low contrast light
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)

34. Focal length controls what?
Front lighting
1 or 2
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Add red

35. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?
High Dynamic Range
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Shutter-Priority

36. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?
No
Yellow
Aperture - focal length - and distance to the subject
Add magenta

37. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?
Yellow
Incident light meter
Actual Pixel view
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

38. What does a neutral density filter do?
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
JPEG
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Depth of field

39. What angle of view does an incident meter read?
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Along the lines of an imaginary grid at intersecting points that divide the image into thirds horizontally and vertically
3:1 or 4:1
Front lighting

40. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Use and adjustment layer
sRGB
hue/saturation adjustment layer
Total number of pixels

41. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.
The brightness of the light that reaches the sensor
256
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

42. The histogram of a properly exposed grey card will show a vertical bar where on the histogram?
Sensor size - the larger the sensor size - the longer the focal length of a normal lens. (Corresponds to a diagonal line across the frame)
In the middle
Very wide at about 180 degrees
Infrared

43. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?
Dynamic range
Fair Use
RAID system
Aperture

44. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
3200 Kelvin

45. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
8 bits
Levels adjustment
Because you can move in close to the subject
Aperture and shutter

46. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Parallax
Butterfly lighting

47. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Bit
A RAW file that has been altered
1 1/3 stops

48. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
sRGB
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.
Blue

49. What are the effects of top lighting?
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.
Bit
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta

50. What is interpolated resolution?
The amount of information contained in each pixel
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.
3:1 or 4:1
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."