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Saturday, January 10, 2009 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
You have this expensive SLR camera with all kinds of metering options: matrix, center-weighted and spot. So how come some of your images are too bright or too dark? As with so many other issues in your life, the answer to this question is nuanced – neither black nor white. The answer is MEDIUM-GRAY!
Good photographs combine several elements: composition, light, white balance, and exposure. In this new photo Safari conducted by Bob Blanken, one of the top portrait and wedding photographers in the DC area, we concentrate on that last element: exposure! Bob will show you how and why to use a hand-held light meter that ACCURATELY measures the light falling ON to your subject, not the light reflected BACK from the subject to the camera. If you are interested in specialty photography portraits, food, pets, landscapes, architecture, or any subject with strong backlighting, this Safari will help you understand what a hand-held light meter does and how it works to give you perfect exposures every time. You may have seen professional photographers at work, holding a meter up to the highlighted cheek of their model or subject. Why do they do that? And, before you push the shutter, how do you measure the combined light that will be made by your flash, the window light and the room light. Hand-held light meters can do that. How do you balance indoor light in a room with the outdoor light seen through the room’s window? Hand-held light meters can do that.
If you have a LOT of money, they can even measure the correct color temperature in degrees of Kelvin so that your color/white balance is accurate!
This Safari, held at Bob Blanken’s studio in Bethesda MD, will also have a representative from the Bogen Company, Lydia Thomas, demonstrating the use of various light meters at different price ranges. You will find that this Safari takes the mystery out of using handheld meters indoors and outdoors, greatly improving the quality of your images. For intermediate to advanced-level photographers with cameras that have manually adjustable aperture and shutter speed settings.
Bring camera, lenses, auxiliary flash, tripod.
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