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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?






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






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






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






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

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






8. What is TTL?






9. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?






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






11. Perspective is affected by what?






12. What light source has the highest color temperature?






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






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






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






16. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?






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






18. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?






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






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






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






22. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






23. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?






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






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






26. What does a neutral density filter do?






27. What is the inverse square law?






28. What do TTL systems react to?






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






30. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






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






32. What are the effects of high side lighting?






33. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?






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






35. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?






36. 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?






37. What is the best color profile for web images?






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






39. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






40. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






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






42. Panning does what?






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






44. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






45. What is focal length - technically?






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






47. Contrast measures what in a print?






48. What is interpolated resolution?






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






50. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?