Posts Tagged metering

When You Change Focus, You Change Exposure – Photography Experiments

You might not know this, but your camera is a little neurotic. Trust me. Or don’t, and try this little experiment so I can prove it to you. Focus The premiss here is your camera has a bunch of light metering points. These points don’t cover your entire field of view when looking through the… Read More

Use Your Histogram Info For Better Photos – Photography Basics

What is a Histogram? Boring Answer (from Wikipedia): An image histogram is a type of histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image.[1] It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value. By looking at the histogram for a specific image a viewer will be able to… Read More