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Episode 5 , Camera Meters and Histograms

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Get better exposures by understanding how your camera's light meter sees a scene (and how this relates to histograms).

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: April 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Author: prophotolife

Length: 04:57
Rating: 4.97
Views: 12584

Tags: camera  exposure  histogram  lighting  meter  photo  photography  studio  

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hoill (October 3, 2008 at 12:06 pm)
Great video, but I was actually hoping to find something about different camera metering modes. Oh well. I guess I'll have to keep looking.
thepiecesfit (July 6, 2008 at 5:27 am)
Vague explanation. An amateur will not understand why. Exposure compensation should be considered and a touch of the zone system to fully understand why whites and blacks turn grey.
daBOODA (June 29, 2008 at 6:26 am)
Because the camera assumes everything is grey. So when you fill the frame with all black, the camera just thinks it's look at gray but that there's not enough light.
chicharra2322 (May 31, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
Great video. It helps.
getpballs (May 16, 2008 at 1:31 am)
i understand how the histogram works and where the shadows, higlights, and midtones show. But how come then he took the picture of the black and white card, the showed up where the midtones should be?
wdkrebs (May 13, 2008 at 10:59 am)
getpalls - he took a picture of all three cards at the end, not just the black and white. Watch again and the gray card is in the middle. Also, notice how he framed the shot in an attempt to get equal amounts of all three cards.
getpballs (May 7, 2008 at 4:09 am)
Nice video, I already knew about all this but you explained it very easily! I wanna see more of these vids, keep it up! Just a question though, why is it when you took a picture of just the black and white card, the histogram showed the activity on the middle?
EdwinWiseOne (April 21, 2008 at 3:13 pm)
Great stuff, keep doing these!

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