From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
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What is good exposure?
From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
What is good exposure?
- I would like you to take a moment to consider the humble edge. Now you may not considers edges so humble when you whack your shin into the corner of an open dishwasher door, but for photography, edges are everything. A photograph is a very sophisticated optical illusion. In the real world, most of us see in three dimensions and a good part of our visual system is devoted to figuring out where the edges of things are. We do that partly through sensitivity to changes in contrast, and partly through our binocular stereo vision. In a two dimensional photo, we can only represent an edge through changes in tone or color. Now, consider this image. I'm zooming in on this edge right here, edge of this horse. I didn't realize this image had so many pixels, I got to zoom quite a ways. Here we go. This is the horse's back right here, this is the edge. Notice that this edge, like all edges, has a dark side and a light side. All edges in all photos always have a dark side and a light side, unless…
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