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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?






2. Bit depth refers to what?






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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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9. What is the inverse square law?






10. What are the effects of top lighting?






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






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






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






14. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?






15. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?






16. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






17. This kind of meter is preferred by photographers working in a studio situation where lighting conditions can be altered.






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






19. 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?






20. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






21. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?






22. What would you use an ICC profile for?






23. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






25. What is gamut?






26. 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?






27. Contrast measures what in a print?






28. 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?






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






30. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






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






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






33. What is interpolated resolution?






34. Panning does what?






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






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






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






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






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






40. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






41. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






43. 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?






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






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






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






47. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






48. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






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






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