User-created articles tagged with "exposure"
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| Published on Apr 11, 2013 | Technology
Exposure is determined by the luminance from the scene, the f-ratio, and the shutter speed — only. All other procedures, either in-camera or with the computer, to affect the brightness of an image, including ISO, comprise brightening -- a concept essentially different from exposure.
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| Published on Jan 9, 2013 | Photography and Photographers
To put it simply, any scene is divided in brightness from 0-9 (IX), with zero being pure black and IX being pure white with no details .. and zone V the middle neutral grey 18% which the camera metering always aims for .. with each zone or stop double the one below in brightness and vice versa ..
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| Published on Jan 8, 2013 | Photo Techniques
The idea is not clipping while preserving as much detail as possible in the shadows where the signal/noise ratio is very low while also preserving most of the tonal details residing in the right bright illuminated part of the curve where there is a high signal/noise ratio ..
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| Published on Jan 7, 2013 | Camera and Photography Basics
People argue about zoom lenses and prime lenses and which are better ..
Here is the score ..
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| Published on Jan 7, 2013 | Camera and Photography Basics
Shutter speed makes very little difference to shots with flash .. it is more about how far the subject (double the distance you get 1/4 the light or the inverse square law), what ISO and most importantly what aperture .. while shutter speed only alters how the ambient light is captured ..
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