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Photography podcast #6 is ready for downloading or subscribing. In this podcast we talk about basic exposure in photography. We go through techniques involving using a gray card and we talk about reflective, incident and spot metering.
Photography podcast transcript 6
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[...] chosen from previous photo podcasts; Watching the background – depth of field – fill flash – exposure in photography – painting with light – framing your subject – intentional blur – polarizing and neutral grad [...]
[...] This is a good example of the exposure we talked about in podcast #6. In the first image, I took a shot of the scene using only the camera’s meter and no adjustments. As we discussed in the podcast the job of all camera meters is to average out the scene. Since so much light was coming in via the window, the camera ’said’ hey I need to reduce exposure. Therefore the cat has almost no detail, but the curtains look great. [...]
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thanks again for letting me know about the error.
Not so sure I agree with you Dmitri…Learning metering is crucial in my opinion. Plus when the lighting is mixed with different types of light, it’s MUCH harder to guess. You can also be sure that pros rarely or never guess. They need to KNOW, even if they’ve recreated the scene many many times. Plus again, when setting up studio lights you need to (or should) balance them and you can’t do this accurately without metering. I would never recommend guesswork over metering.
I’ve never used gray cards. I know their benefit,but I still think it’s possible to avoid them,if you really know what you are doing. Same as light meter for studio work. Good to have them,but it’s not that hard to just “guess”
cheers,
Dmitri