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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To produce optimal sharpness - detail - and resolution - is a higher or lower ISO setting better?






2. 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?






3. Bit depth refers to what?






4. What is burning?






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






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






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






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






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






10. What is a flag?






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






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


13. Can you save layers in a JPEG file format?






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






15. What are the effects of high side lighting?






16. In a 2:1 ratio - the shadow side of the subject would meter at X stop(s) less than the highlight side.






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






18. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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


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






21. What is a thyristor?






22. Blue is opposite what color on the color wheel?






23. What does the term "stop" mean?






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






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






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






27. A tonal correction cannot be accomplished by using a...






28. Maximum depth of field at a given aperture is achieved by focusing at what?






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






30. 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?






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






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






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






34. What does a neutral density filter do?






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






36. Panning does what?






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






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






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






40. What is gamut?






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






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






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






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






45. The area of acceptable sharpness in an image is called what?






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






47. What would you use an ICC profile for?






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






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






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