From the course: Learning Lighting: Natural Light
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Understanding exposure and light
From the course: Learning Lighting: Natural Light
Understanding exposure and light
The word exposure refers to the amount of light hitting your camera's sensor and being recorded by the camera's memory card. Now your camera gives you a little help with this situation by providing you with an internal reflective light meter. That measures the light and dark in your scene and then tells the camera what it thinks the proper exposure should be. You can let the internal light meter do all the thinking for you and see the results. Or you can gain a little more control by adjusting your camera's metering settings or depending on your light in your scene and your artistic intent disregard it completely. In any case, it's good to know how to control the light entering the camera. And exposure is a combination of three important elements, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. It's often referred to as the photographic triangle. Aperture measured in f stops, is the opening in the lens that lets in the light. Shutter speed is the amount of time the shutter is open to let in the…
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