From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
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Working with the camera histogram
From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
Working with the camera histogram
Abba Shapiro: Now, if you don't have a Light Meter you can actually just use the Camera and the Histogram to make sure your lighting is right. Now, I know we're pretty close, because we did use the Light Meter earlier, but let's go ahead and take a test shot and see exactly how our lights are going to look. Now I have this set up for f8, 1/25th of a second. I'm completely in manual mode, you don't want to be in any kind of an automatic mode, because it will try to compensate for your light. So we set it up, so f8, 1/25th of a second, 100 ISO is exactly what we want to use to light our model. We'll take a quick test shot, and let's take a look at that, that's pretty good. Now, I have two things that I want to tell you about that I don't want you to be alarmed. First is a little piece of black flashing right here on the side of her face. I've Enabled a Highlight in my menu. If I go there, there's something called the Highlight alert, and that just tells me that that part of the image is…
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