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Metering light to get it right

Metering light to get it right

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Metering light to get it right

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One of the ways to achieve proper exposure within your craft photography is by metering light. Now, you can meter light with an external handheld light meter, or one that connects to your camera with a a cord. Or, you can just simply use the light meter that is built into your camera. Every camera has a light meter built in, and that is what helps you find the proper exposure. So, the photograph that we're looking at on screen right now is underexposed. It's too dark. So, what happened when I took this photograph is that I was metering in these very bright light sky areas. And my camera was trying to compensate for all that really bright information, so it resulted in a very dark photograph. Now, in this next example, I was taking samples in the tree branch in much darker areas and to try to find that balance of light, I ended up with a very overexposed, way way too bright and very blown out in certain areas image. And this is also unusable. So, what I needed to do was take a metering…

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