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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 [...]

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 [...]