Harness Light For Lighter And Darker Images
I was finally at the first day of a much anticipated photography workshop. I was presenting some of my strongest work to the group of my fellow students and the instructor. When we got to the above photo, the first comment was that it was overexposed.
Overexposed?
What do you mean overexposed?
I didn’t know what they were talking about at the time. But now that I know more, I realized that me and this person have different ways of viewing an image.
In this blog post my goal is to empower you so that if someone ever questions your choice of exposure, you’ll be able to reply to them with confidence the choice of authorship that you made.
Metering A Scene
When you meter a scene, you need to make a choice about what part of the scene will be your primary source of light. From here you can decide what will be your highlights and lowlights of the scene. I went into details about how to do this in my post, Getting The Exposure You Want For Any Kind Of Photo.
In this post, I want to introduce the idea that you can choose any object in the scene to…
