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Originally Posted by Dream Killer
also you might want to add a section on metering and understanding what it's trying to tell you. it's not a simple thing that should be centered all the time and should be compensated to what you see. in fact most of my good shots are never at the center of the meter.
for most people getting their feet wet in manual exposure, the meter is counter-intuitive. very bright scenes need more exposure and darker scenes need less exposure. this is because meters in cameras try to set the "zero position" to black gray and white gray. a good place to start is the different metering modes. you could also touch on reading histograms which is an infinitely invaluable tool next to your exposure meter. put tricks like exposing to the right for better shadow recovery in raw. however, this might be a little overwhelming for a thread meant for beginners. maybe there should be a separate thread for "advanced" techniques instead? |
If so, then I think you or someone else should write it. Compared to most of the veteran photogs on the photo forum here, I'm still not as good as you guys
