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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
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1. What kind of meter is built in to most cameras?






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






3. A magic wand tool is used for what?






4. 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?






5. A histogram shows what in an image?






6. Doubling the aperture setting creates how many stops difference in the amount of light reaching the sensor?






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






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






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






10. What is the inverse square law?






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






12. What is the term used to describe a sensor's sensitivity to light?






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






14. What is a derivative file?






15. The amount of motion blur in an image will increase if you do what?






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






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






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






19. What angle of view does a spot meter read?






20. Generally - traditional portraits use what lighting ratio?






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






22. What is a Bit?






23. What color is between Magenta and Cyan on the color wheel?






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






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






26. When the additive primaries are mixed together equally - what is created?






27. Panning does what?






28. What is interpolated resolution?






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






30. What is gamut?






31. When buying a lens hood - you should get it in what size relative to the lens?

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32. What is the name of the technique used to make a monitor look like what you will see on your print?






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






34. What does a neutral density filter do?






35. What color is opposite Red on the color wheel?






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






44. What is a thyristor?






45. If you must move to reduce the amount of flash reaching your subject - how far do you move?






46. According to the Inverse Square Law - at a distance of 10 feet from a flash - the area illuminated receives how much more/less light than the area illuminated at 20 feet from the flash?






47. What is burning?






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






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






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