All Entries Tagged With: "exposure"

Understanding Exposure Meter Settings

All digital cameras have an exposure meter of some sort. Most models have multiple exposure patterns for measuring the light hitting your camera’s sensor. Let’s take a quick look at three of the most common type of exposure meter patterns.
Center-weighted
In center-weighted meter mode your camera’s sensor is going to take a measurement of [...]

What is Shutter Speed?

Often times it’s good to have a quick definition of a term or component of photography to use as reference. This way you don’t have to be embarrassed not to know. Today we discuss…quickly…
Shutter Speed
One of the main components of exposure, shutter speed, is the rate at which the shutter, opens and closes [...]

In Camera Light Meter

Often times when photographers are learning about exposure in digital photography they neglect to consider how important the light meter is in determining the outcome of your photograph.  This is especially true in many of the auto or semi-auto exposure modes.

Today’s cameras are built with light meters inside.  These handy little computers are used to [...]

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Why Exposure Matters

Often times, in photography, we talk about exposure. Perhaps we refer to getting a correct exposure, underexposing, or overexposing.

So what the heck is exposure?
Try to think of the camera’s primary function. It isn’t just to record the scene before you. It’s to collect and record light. In photographic terms, exposure refers [...]

Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

In thinking about exposure and the photographic triangle we often talk about the three elements that make up the photographic triangle. Simply put, they are; aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
But what exactly are aperture, shutter speed, and ISO? Here’s a quick rundown of these common terms of photography.
Aperture
Every SLR and DSLR (and many [...]

The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure [Book Review]

Special thanks to Amphoto Books and Watson-Guptill Publications for providing this month’s Photography Book Club selection.
The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (BetterPhoto Series) by Sean Arbabi
By most photographer’s standards, the quest for consistently great exposure control is the holy grail of technical expertise. This book aims at helping you reach that goal.
About the Author
Sean Arbabi [...]

Your exposure should be correct!

When reading my copy of Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition), you can read the review, Bryan Peterson mentioned something in the very first chapter that really stuck with me throughout the book and it’s something I still think about daily.
During the chapter “Defining Exposure” Peterson [...]

The Exposure Equation

In trying to grasp the technical aspects of photography exposure is the foundation. It is absolutely fundamental to understand the how’s and why’s of exposure in order to be able to truly capture and manipulate light. Light is after all what we are capturing in photography. More specifically; reflected light.
In Light & [...]

Light & Exposure [Book Review]

Described as a pragmatic guide for digital photographers looking for a creative way to explore the world, Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers really emphasizes that equipment alone won’t help you capture compelling images. Of course this is a topic we speak about often here at Your Photo Tips.

The Visual Journey in Photography

“The term visualization refers to the entire emotional-mental process of creating a photograph, and as such, it is one of the most important concepts in photography” Ansel Adams – The Camera
So what exactly is visualization in photography and how can we hope to achieve it?
Perhaps we take a look at photography in it’s purest form.  [...]