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Working with a light meter

Working with a light meter

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Working with a light meter

Abba Shapiro: Now, let's look at refining our lighting setup, making sure that our Key Light and our Fill Light and our Back Light do exactly what we want them to do. Now, we did a kind of a pre-setup before, but now we actually have the model in the shot, and we can see how the different lights will light her. Now, in this movie we're going to use a Light Meter, but if don't have a light meter don't worry because in the next movie we're going to show you how to do the same thing using the Histogram on your camera. So the first thing I want to do is I want to make sure that my Key Light is at the luminance level that I want. So, the trick here is first, when using a Light Meter, depending on your camera, you're probably going to set your shutter speed to either 1/125th of a second or 1/250th of a second. I'm going to be using a Canon camera, so I like to shoot at 1/25th of a second, because in reality, I'll be shooting a lot faster because these strobes go off in milliseconds, and…

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