From the course: Introduction to Photography
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Understanding what clipping is in an image
From the course: Introduction to Photography
Understanding what clipping is in an image
- In the last movie, I said that your light meter is always going to pick exposures that will make sure that you have detail in the highlights, and it will do that at the cost of the shadows. The reason for that, is an overexposed highlight, a blown-out highlight, an area that's gone to complete white it's really distracting in an image, it's an eye-magnet, you can't help but look at it. A shadow that has underexposed to complete blackness just looks like a really dark shadow. So, the camera has intelligently made the decision, actually the engineers who built the camera have intelligently made the decision, to make sure that the camera always protects those highlights, always ensures that there's detail in there. Still, sometimes meters make wrong assumptions, or you're in a particularly difficult lighting situation, sometimes you will end up with overexposure in the highlights on your images. I said, even earlier than last movie, that you can't judge anything on the back of your…
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