Light Meter Flashcards
What is the reflected light meter?
Amount of light reflected to you off of object
What is metering?
Measuring how much light there is
What’s an incident light meter?
Amount of light falling on the object hand held
An averaging meter?
Takes two areas measures light then averages it out
Center weighted meter?
Takes the light in the middle and measure it (manual,older)
Spot meter?
Reads only a small section of the of the picture
Multi- segmented meter?
Divides the photo and measure the light in different sections and averages out
Light meter?
Only light makes everything to middle grey. Doesn’t recognize anything else
If your picture is mostly white what do you do?
Overexpose by 2 stops
If your picture is mostly black what do you do?
Underexpose by 2 stops
What is bracketing?
Multiple pictures using different exposers
Grey cards?
18% grey. You meter off of it, makes your picture the right lighting, next best thing is your hand
What is the sunny 16 rule?
Must be outside, you set aperture to f16
Shutter speed as close as I can get it to film speed