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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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1. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






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






3. Perspective is affected by what?






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






5. What light source has the highest color temperature?






6. What is interpolated resolution?






7. What determines what will be a 'normal' focal length lens on a particular camera?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. To emphasize texture in a portrait - what kind of light source is recommended?






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






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






18. As the aperture becomes smaller - what happens to the depth of field?






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






20. 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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21. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






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






23. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






24. What is burning?






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






26. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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






29. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.






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?






31. What is the name of the issue that prevents you from seeing exactly what the lens sees when using a rangefinder camera?






32. Panning does what?






33. What is a Bit?






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






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






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






37. 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?






38. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






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






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






42. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?






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






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






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






46. Focal length controls what?






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






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






49. Photoshop's command for a simple way to start using color balance is what?






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

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