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Certified Professional Photographer

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printers use how many bits per channel of information when printing?






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






3. What is a Bit?






4. What color is opposite Green on the color wheel?






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






6. Digital cameras use what set of primary colors?






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






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






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






10. What is burning?






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






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






13. 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?






14. What kind of lighting pattern is best for average oval faces and round faces you want to slim?






15. Panning does what?






16. What is a thyristor?






17. How can you change the brightness of the background when using flash?






18. What is the term used to describe human's change in perception of a color under different light sources?






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






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

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






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






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






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






25. This technique allows you to keep a subject that is moving toward you well focused.






26. When mixed in varying proportion - the subtractive primary colors produce what?






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






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






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






30. How is brightness and contrast best controlled in Photoshop?






31. What are IPTC fields used for?






32. What is the suggested shutter speed to stop action of a child running parallel to the film plan - about 25 feet from the camera?






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






34. 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?






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






36. What is a color profile?






37. What are luminance and illuminance?






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






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






40. Printers use what set of colors?






41. A magic wand tool is used for what?






42. Convex lenses cause light rays to do what?






43. What is the CCD or CMOS sensor?

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






45. What do TTL systems react to?






46. An image made of pixels is sometimes called what?






47. 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?






48. This kind of lens has a variable focal length.






49. A technique used to maintain sharp focus on a subject that is moving toward you is called what?






50. When the subtractive primaries are added together equally - what is created?