Explore exposure and dynamic range to understand how digital cameras capture images—and how to deal with tricky lighting scenarios.
Exploring Photography: Exposure and Dynamic Range
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Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Understanding the essential exposure controls
- What is good exposure?
- Solving exposure challenges with exposure compensation
- Shooting manual to get more overexposure and underexposure latitude
- Understanding how editing informs shooting
- Reviewing histogram information
- Exposing to the right
- Understanding the raw format and in-camera histograms
- Exposing to the right in the real world
- JPEG exposure strategy
- Understanding auto ISO and when to use it
- Configuring auto ISO for best exposure
- Moving subjects and auto ISO in low light
- Understanding metering modes
- Metering options field demonstration
- Correcting the default spot meter exposure
- Defining dynamic range
- Metering and dynamic range
- Exploring the aesthetics of dynamic range
- Exposing for maximum contrast
- Post-processing for maximizing contrast
- Fixing exposure through a range of in-camera adjustments
- Shooting a small still life in front of a bright window
- Post work on the small still life image
- Final thoughts
Taught by
Ben Long
