Monday, January 18, 2010

Exposure Table and Exposure Meter


Meters have a light-sensitive surface or "cell" to measure accurately the actual illumination reflected from the subject under all sorts of conditions. A separate hand-held meter has the advantage of serving all cameras and, unlike meters that are built into the camera, enables you to check exposure quickly without having to use your camera. This is particularly useful when you have the camera on tripod with a carefully set viewpoint, because you are free to take close-up readings without disturbing the camera position.

Exposure tables are useful guides for "average" subjects in specified lighting conditions.
Exposure meter is much more versatile and accurate because it reads your particular subject and lighting conditions. For a subject like the picture right, a general overall meter measurement will give good results. But sometimes the meter can give a misleading reading of the exposure.

1 comment:

  1. well, as one of the reporters i've learned many things especially on how to improve my photographs like the EDFAT formula and composition, I hope that these things will help my classmates in their portforlio... goodluck sating lahat... :)

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