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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Contrast measures what in a print?






2. Printers use what set of colors?






3. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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4. What is a BYTE?






5. What kind of film can help reduce haze in a landscape?






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






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






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






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






10. What is a thyristor?






11. This viewing option gives you the most accurate version of your image in Photoshop.






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






13. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






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






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






16. As the aperture is stopped down - what happens to sharpness?






17. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






18. What is dodging?






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






20. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.






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






22. 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?






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






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






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






26. What is TTL?






27. 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?






28. A filter with a factor of 2 requires how many stops of compensation?

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






30. Name two ways you can increase depth of field (other than changing aperture).






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






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






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






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






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






36. What angle of view does an incident meter read?






37. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






38. Tungsten is approximately what color temperature?






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






40. A color image with smooth gradiations requires at least what bit depth?






41. What light source has the highest color temperature?






42. What is a color profile?






43. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






44. What is a derivative file?






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






46. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






48. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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






50. Focal length controls what?