The Challenge of Exposure
One of the things I expected each new purchase to provide me were solutions for problems that I continually faced in the field. One of those issues had always been exposure.
The goal was simple enough: Create an exposure that’s not too light or too dark. Often, I just allowed the camera’s automatic features to handle things for me, but sometimes the automatic features were off the mark. Even if I controlled exposure manually and referred to the meter in my viewfinder, sometimes the exposure was less than stellar.
The problem wasn’t so much with the camera technology as it was with the fact that I simply didn’t know how to meter a scene. I had no idea how or why the things in front of my lens could impact the meter reading ...
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