Archive of 2012 February
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Your Camera’s Built In Light Meter
Posted on February 29, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Photography PrinciplesWhen we use our DSLR to view a scene, it does something called metering. Put simply, this is a process where our camera measures the amount of light being reflected off a subject (or several subjects, or your entire scene), and feeds back an exposure value it feels will adequately expose the image. Sorry, what? To really...
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Ambient Light and the Exposure Triangle
Posted on February 17, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Photography PrinciplesWhen you capture an image with your camera, there are three basic things which will affect how that image turns out. Those are your ISO, your shutter speed and your aperture. Together these three settings comprise your exposure triangle, and while you can achieve the same exposure value with different combinations of these three components, you...
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My first roll of film in nearly a decade
Posted on February 11, 2012 by DIY Film in Shooting FilmI loaded up the first roll of Kentmere ASA100 yesterday, did various tests, looking at what the camera's meter told me, what the Sekonic L718 light meter told me, what the D300s told me, and then plugging those settings into the N90s to see how they all turned out and how all their settings matched...
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The Inverse Square Law
Posted on February 11, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Photography PrinciplesMany have heard of the Inverse Square Law, some even understand it, but everybody feels its effect on a daily basis. It's what prevents gravity from pulling us all into the ground and it's also what allows the sun to illuminate the planet without blinding us. Essentially, the Inverse Square Law (let's just call it the...
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Why am I shooting film again?
Posted on February 8, 2012 by DIY Film in Shooting FilmA few people have asked me why I'm bothering to shoot film again. Some have supported my decision to do so, some not so much. :) I did not make this choice to garner praise, nor criticism (however much a certainty that may be), nor am I doing it in some sort of hipster-like attempt to...
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Adventures with Film
Posted on February 8, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Shooting FilmIt's been almost a decade since I last shot a roll of film. Ever since getting the Nikon D100, shortly after its initial release in 2002, I've been exclusively digital and my N90s has lived in one of various drawers, boxes and camera bags during the last 3 house moves. It still even has a roll...
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What is a stop of light?
Posted on February 3, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Photography PrinciplesOne of the questions I most commonly see from new photographers, and one of the things that seems to confuse them the most, is what a stop of light is exactly (understandable though, once you break it down and realise that everything measures stops with a different set of numbers), and how it affects their...
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The Reinvention of DIY Film.
Posted on February 2, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Site NewsDIY Film is going through a reinvention, of sorts. When I first setup DIY Film, I was starting to get back into doing more video projects, I had several people offering to help and assist with providing content and assisting on video shoots in order to bring you plenty of behind the scenes footage, I wanted...
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