Archive of Photography Principles
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Metering with an Incident Light Meter
Posted on March 11, 2012 by DIY Film in Featured, Photography Principles, Shooting FilmIn our last article, we discussed how to meter using your in-camera metering systems, the differences between the different modes and when some are more advantageous than others. We also illustrated some of its advantages and disadvantages, and where it may possibly be able to get confused. One...
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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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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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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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