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Shooting "in the middle"

Shooting "in the middle"

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Shooting "in the middle"

One challenge with a backlit subject is getting proper exposure. Now, I'm here with VP Kevin Bradley, and we're taking a look at the shot, and, we properly exposed for the outdoors, right? Kevin, as we look at the shot, everything's fine outside, right? Yeah, the outside is properly exposed, but everything else is under. Yeah, so you kind of have a choice here. You could decide to expose for the inside. And, if we did that, why don't you go ahead and open it up a little bit, either with ISO or aperture, whatever you want. So we're opening, ISO 640. Alright, and while we've got a decent exposure here for him, the window is totally blown out. So, Kevin, if, we really have two ways of solving this, right? If we wanted to fix this, we could decide to modify the lighting. Yeah. We could modify the window. Yep. Of course, sometimes we have no time, and so if you don't have time to fix the lighting, or fix the backlight, what would you do exposure-wise? Well, in this day and age, cameras are…

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