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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
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1. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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2. 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?






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






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






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






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






7. A tall vertical line on the right hand edge of a histogram indicates what?






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






9. The term "ISO speed" is used to describe what?

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






11. What angle should a polarizing filter be to the sun for best results?






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

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






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






15. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






16. What is the usable exposure range - or range of subject brightness called?






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






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






19. What is dodging?






20. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?






21. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






23. What is TTL?






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






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






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






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






28. The rule of thirds necessitates that the composition be divided into a grid of now many equal rectangles or squares?






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






30. A histogram shows what in an image?






31. What is a flag?






32. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






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






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






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






37. Instead of permanently altering your image when adjusting for color and value - what should you do?






38. Why does a short lens create wide-angle distortion?






39. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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40. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






41. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?






42. What is burning?






43. Focal length controls what?






44. 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?






45. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






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






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






48. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






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






50. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?