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Certified Professional Photographer

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card
1) Use a longer lens; 2) Move closer to the subject
Small light source at an angle to the subject
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.

2. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
Shutter speed & aperture
Incident light meter
Aperture

3. Cyan is composed of equal parts of what two colors?
aperture diameter
Shutter speed & aperture
1) Magnification - or the size of the subject; 2) Angle of view
Blue & Green

4. Going clockwise around the color wheel - starting with RED - what is the progression of colors?
Aperture-Priority
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
One stop less
It increases

5. What image adjustment tool uses a histogram display to alter an image?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
Follow focus
Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta
Levels adjustment

6. An 8x10 at 240 dpi will have a resolution of what?
1920 pixels by 2400 pixels (4.6 million pixels)
The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a zero. It can only represent two possibilities - either yes or no - black or white.
Reciprocal relationship
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

7. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
The difference between light and dark.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation

8. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?
RAID system
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Metamerism

9. 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?
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Magenta
Use negative exposure compensation (underexpose). The meter will attempt to make the dark scene 18% grey - underexpose to bring it back to dark.
A RAW file that has been altered

10. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
24 bits per pixel (8 per color) - which gives 16 -777 -216 colors
Half as much light
To send accurate color requirements to a printer.

11. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?
Flat lighting
Fisheye
Keeps a moving subject sharp while blurring the background
256

12. In a digital image - the images file sizes corresponds to the total number of what in the image?
Total number of pixels
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Use and adjustment layer
Lower

13. If an image is too yellow - what color adjustment should be made in Photoshop to correct it?
Follow focus
5000K
Add cyan
Add blue

14. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?
A raster image
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Levels adjustment
Shutter-priority

15. What is burning?
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
Lasso tool
Selecting portions of the image based on color

16. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?
Glossy paper
Flat lighting
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
Incident light meter

17. A lens set at f/4 admits how much more/less light than one set at f/2.8?
Half as much light
Add blue
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment

18. Most modern lenses are based on this kind of lens.
Aperture and shutter
3200 Kelvin
Convex
One stop

19. How much resolution do you need for: Internet? Newspaper? Photographic print? Glossy magazine?
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi
Fair Use
It decreases. A 50mm lens at 12 inches and f/4 has a DOF of 1/16th of an inch. At f/11 - it increases to only 1/2 an inch.
Very wide at about 180 degrees

20. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?
Blue
hue/saturation adjustment layer
The sensor's sensitivity to light
More of the background and foreground are sharp.

21. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.
One stop less
Depth of field
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Use positive exposure compensation (overexposure). A reflected meter reading will attempt to make the scene 18% gray - employ overexposure to adjust.

22. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?
Levels adjustment
Follow focus
Close-ups that are life-size or larger. Images through microscopes are "photomicrographs."
Memory card / flash card / compact flash card

23. What Photoshop tool allows you to select an area of any size or shape by drawing freehand?
A mathematical translator assigned to each piece of equipment you use (they map one gamut to another; and the ICC (or International Color Consortium) profile is usually shipped by the equipment manufacturer).
Lasso tool
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.

24. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?
1 1/3 stops
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Change the shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed - the lighter the background will be. The faster the shutter speed - the darker the background will be because less existing light is captured.
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare

25. What are luminance and illuminance?
Lasso tool
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
Luminance is light reflected from the subject (measured by a reflected-light meter) - while Illuminance is light falling on a subject (as measured with an incident light meter)
Internet = 72 dpi; Newspaper = 150 dpi; Photographic print = 240-300 dpi; Gloss magazine = 400 dpi

26. What does ISO stand for?
The distance between the lens rear nodal point and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Snoot
International Organization for Standardization

27. What are quad- and hex- tone printing?
Direct sun at 11 -000 Kelvin
Contrast
Yellow
Inkjet black & white printing where color cartridges are replaced with shades of gray - resulting in smooth tones and slight color cast

28. What kind of lighting pattern places the key light directly in front of and higher than the face?
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Hyperfocal distance. A lens focused at the hyperfocal distance has depth of field extending from approximately half the hyperfocal distance to infinity - whereas a lens focused at infinity has a depth of field only at infinity.
The brightness of all the pixels in an image
Butterfly lighting

29. Stopping a lens down from f/8 to f/16 represents a X stop difference.
High Dynamic Range
Two (f/8 > f/11 > f/16)
Soft proofing
Creates deep shadows in eye pockets - under nose - and chin.

30. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?
Soft proofing
Flat lighting
Incident light meter
To strike the side of the face away from the camera.

31. This type of file format compresses images by discarding pixels; therefore - each time an images is compressed - it loses pixels.
Shutter speed & aperture
JPEG
Bit
The difference between light and dark.

32. The image transmitted by the lens is recorded by the what?
sensor
Shutter-priority
A change in illumination
Aperture and shutter

33. In the 20th century - black & white photographers used the Zone system to tame excessive contrast. Now - digital photographers use what?
1 or 2
High Dynamic Range
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
factor of 2 = 1 stop compensation. (Each time a factor doubles - it's one additional stop)

34. A ring of thin - overlapping leaves located inside the lens is called what?
The diaphragm - the mechanism that controls aperture.
Subtractive primaries (plus black)
Because you can move in close to the subject
ISO

35. when adjusting an image with levels - if you want to make any color neutral quickly - what would you do?
Reciprocal relationship
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
Black (0)
Click with the neutral-point dropper on the selected color

36. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?
3200 Kelvin
Through the Lens. A camera that can automatically control flash exposure using sensors inside the camera.
A simple lens with two curved sides or one curved and one flat side; found in a compound lens.
All colors

37. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?
Soft proofing
Cyan
The diagonal measurement of the sensor.
In the middle

38. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?
Levels adjustment
Follow focus
Selectively blocking light during print exposure to lighten the area
With the Main at 45 degrees to one side and 45 degrees above subject - it is a classic angle for portraits. It seems natural and flattering and models the face into 3D form.

39. What do the bars on the left of a histogram represent?
a sensor (or film's) sensitivity to light
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
Hue - Luminance - Saturation
Black (0)

40. What is interpolated resolution?
Aperture and shutter
Metadata fields that hold info on photographer - subject - and use.
sensor
On a scanner; it guesses what the pixels look like in between the ones the scanner can actually measure.

41. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.
Curves adjustment; Levels adjustment; Brighteness/Contrast adjustment
(X times Y = exposure) Intensity (aperture) x Time (shutter)
Actual Pixel view
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.

42. The term to describe the combination of aperture and shutter speed that can be changed by moving them in opposite directions.
RAID system
90 degrees. If using to eliminate reflections - it should be used at 35 degrees.
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.
Reciprocal relationship

43. How does 'unsharp mask' work?
It emphasizes the edges between tones. A threshold of zero affects all pixels - a higher threshold affects just the edges with high tonal difference and minimizes noise.
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
Dynamic range
Fair Use

44. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?
ISO
Aperture
Selectively increasing print exposure - which will make select parts of the image darker
Absorbs equal quantities of all wavelengths of light. It allows you to use wider apertures or slower shutter speeds without changing color balance.

45. What angle of view does a spot meter read?
Also called a gobo; it is a small panel usually mounted on a stand that shades some part of the subject or shields the lens from light that could cause flare
lengthen (or slow) the shutter speed
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree

46. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?
Maybe as little as 0.5 degrees or 1 degree
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
Magenta
Yellow

47. What angle of view does a reflected light meter read?
Shutter speed & aperture
It should match the focal length. Too wide and it's inefficient; too narrow and it will vignette; most likely to occur with wide angle of 28mm and below.
One stop less
Similar to a normal lens at about 30 degrees

48. Most lenses are sharpest closed down to how many stops from the widest?
Because you can move in close to the subject
The entire range of colors that can be seen - reproduced - or captured. Our eyes have a greater gamut than a print or monitor.
aperture diameter
1 or 2

49. A magic wand tool is used for what?
Selecting portions of the image based on color
Add blue
5 -000 Kelvin
A light-sensitive cell or sensor inside a flash unit that measures the amount of light reflecting off a subject when a flash is used.

50. A general purpose lens will provide an f-stop range of up to how many?
8 stops
The amount of light reflected back from the subject during exposure.
Aperture-Priority
Yellow