Share Be Smarter than the Meter In our previous lesson, we learned how camera meters calculate the exposure based on the reflected light of the scene being photographed. We learned that while most newer DSLRs are more than capable of exposing a scene accurately, high contrast scenes that are predominantly bright or dark can fool our camera’s metering sensors causing an image to be under or over-exposed. In this lesson, we will learn...

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Share One of the main advancements camera design in the early 80s was the invention of auto-exposure modes. The new invention allows the camera’s exposure meter to calculate the proper exposure for each scene without manually memorizing exposure combinations of shutter and aperture values. Virtually all in-camera meters utilize a unit called “reflective meter”, this means is the meter takes a reading of the light reflecting from the subject. Figure 1 illustrates...

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Share Now that we have a better understanding about exposure and how to expose a photograph using different mixtures of shutter speed, aperture size, and ISO setting, we need to learn how to analyze our exposure to ensure we’ve captured the correct amount of data in different areas of our photograph. The most intuitive way to achieve this while shooting would be to check our camera’s LCD screen as it...

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Share What is Photography? Photography is derived from the Greek term of phos graphis or “painting with light”. From the simplest pocket camera to the most modern digital SLR cameras in the market today, all cameras function as an image capturing device by harnessing different spectrum of light to create an image. While different people have different reasons for starting photography, photography fundamentals remain constant and apply to all subject matter and intentions. The...

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