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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






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






3. What are the three main factors that affect depth of field?






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






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






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






7. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?






8. Panning does what?






9. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






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






12. What is an element and where is it found?






13. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.






14. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.






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






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






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






18. In a curves adjustment layer - what does the shape of the curve indicate?






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






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






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






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






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






24. What are IPTC fields used for?






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






26. The smallest unit of digital information is called a what?






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






28. What is a BYTE?






29. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?






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






31. What is gamut?






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






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






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






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






36. Resolution refers to what?






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






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






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






40. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Aperture controls what?






48. What is a flag?






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






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