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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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






3. 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?






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






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






6. Sharpness from near to far is controlled by what?






7. What does "photomacrograph" or "macrophotograph" mean?






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






9. If you're working with an automatic camera and you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture - what mode are you working in?






10. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






11. Daylight is approximately what color temperature?






12. When doing close-up work - what happens to the depth of field when the subject is closer to the lens?






13. What is TTL?






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






15. Contrast measures what in a print?






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






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






18. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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19. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






20. In short lighting - where is the main light placed?






21. What is the general rule of thumb for the measurement of a 'normal' lens?






22. What is the inverse square law?






23. Name 3 ways to make a tonal adjustment in Photoshop.






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






25. What is dodging?






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






27. Whenever another image is copied or moved into a file - Photoshop automatically creates what?






28. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






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






31. This stores electronic images captured in a digital camera until they can be transferred to a computer.






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






33. What kind of lighting pattern is useful to widen a subject?






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






35. Aperture controls what?






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






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






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






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






40. What is a derivative file?






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






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






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






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






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






46. What do TTL systems react to?






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






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






50. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?