for every Photographer to become perfectionist.
The saying ‘practice makes perfect’ is as valid for
photography as any other activity, so in their latest guest blog post the photo
management and irista experts at Photoventure put together a collection of
exercises that will help you become a better photographer.
1. Spot meter
Modern metering systems have great general-purpose modes,
often called Evaluative, Matrix or Multi-area, which do a great job of
accessing a scene and setting good ‘average’ exposure settings in many
situations.
However, they’re not 100% foolproof and very dark or very
light scenes, or backlighting can trick them into over or under exposure.
They’re also not psychic and don’t know what you’re seeing
in your head when you take a shot.
Switching to spot metering puts you in control of where the
camera meters from and helps you develop a much better understanding of the
tonal range in a scene.
A standard spot metering system allows you to meter from a
very small part of the scene and it suggests exposure settings that will render
your target a mid-tone.
Consequently, you need to take care with the positioning of
this spot, study the scene carefully and decide which is the best area to take
a reading from.
It’s often helpful to combine spot metering with AE Lock as
this will fix the exposure settings (after metering) while you compose the
image.
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To Be Continued.......
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