Fetish photo tips Exposure

Fetish Photo Tips Exposure

Fetish Photo Tips

Fetish photo tips number one Exposure. That’s the camera’s not the model’s.

Exposure Compensation

Your camera has a very sophisticated metering system that is good at controlling the amount of light that hits the sensor (the exposure) but it is not infallible and of course it doesn’t work with studio flash. There are also limits to the system. Most cameras can cope with all but the brightest lights such as pointing it at the midday sun. Not recommended anyway as you might burn out the sensor and your eyeballs. At the other end of the scale there comes a point in darkness where our human eyes can cope but the camera just cannot let enough light in to the create a viable picture.

Our eye contains a wonderful light meter. When we look out of the window on a bright, sunny, day it closes down to compensate for the intensity of the light. When we look back into the darker room it compensates by opening up to let more light in; but, even our eyes, cannot record both scenes at once. If we attempt to photograph a scene that contains bright highlights and dark shadows we find that our camera is also incapable of recording both. To get the best picture we use exposure compensation.

Fetish photo tops Exposure

The range of tones from the brightest to the darkest your cameras sensor can record in the same picture is limited (dynamic range). So let’s take a picture of a model standing next to a window. Sunlight is streaming through the window and illuminating her. There is a huge variation in the correct exposure for her skin and the dark room behind her. Most digital cameras meter this wide range of tones and pick one in the middle to base the exposure on. This inevitably means that the highlights on her skin burn out to white (and look terrible), the shadows on her skin will have a little detail and the darkest shadows in the room behind her will be black. Now we don’t really care about the room behind her, we can let that go darker, but we do care about the highlights on her skin and we want to see some detail in these even if they are quite light. The solution is to apply minus exposure compensation; in this case -1 or 2.

In practice, whatever the light source, set the cameras exposure so that it records details in the highlights. Use the histogram viewing function or highlight over exposure warning on your camera. This is good practice because once detail is lost in white highlights it is gone forever and no Photoshop magic can recover it. If shadows are too dark the detail can often be recovered with careful editing. Remember that you can adjust the dynamic range of your subject by adding reflectors or fill in lights.

For the moment let your camera work out which shutter speed and aperture to use – more on that later.

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