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Certified Professional Photographer

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The quantity of light that reaches your sensor is controlled by what?






2. Color systems divide all colors into which three measurements?






3. How does 'unsharp mask' work?






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






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






6. What does side lighting emphasize?






7. How would you define exposure in mathematical terms?






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






9. What is the effect of front lighting?






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






11. What kind of lighting patter is useful to narrow a face?






12. What is the term used to describe data contained in a digital image?






13. What is the inverse square law?






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






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






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






17. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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?






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






26. To minimize facial wrinkles - this type of lighting is best.






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






28. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






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






31. What is focal length - technically?






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






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






34. This light modifier can be used to highlight a specific area of the subject.






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






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






37. A lens with a very wide angle of view and produces barrel distortion is what kind of lens?






38. Focal length controls what?






39. The greatest tonal range from black to white is achievable on what kind of paper?






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






41. 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?






42. Why is depth of field greater on a short lens versus a long lens?






43. 8 bits per pixel gives you how many colors?






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






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






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






47. This type of backup system is fault-tolerant because it creates redundant data.






48. 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?






49. A magic wand tool is used for what?






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