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EXPOSURE THEORY
Frankly, exposure can get pretty technical, so it’s important to grasp the basic concepts first before we plunge into the world of exposure control for technical and artistic purposes. Let’s take a look at exposure the simple way just to ease into it. As a cinematographer or DIT, you may think you completely understand exposure (and you may well do), but it is also very possible that there’s a lot more to it than you may have thought.
This introduction is a bit simplified, but it will provide a working understanding of exposure that is useful without being too technical. First of all, there is one notion that has to be put away right now: some people think of exposure as nothing more than “it’s too dark” or “it’s ...
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