Digital Photographic Capture

Basics of Exposure

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Chapter 6 Overview

This chapter discusses the concept of exposure and how it applies to the use of digital cameras. After a presentation of the basics, including equivalent exposures, nonmetered and metered approaches are considered, including basic daylight exposures, use of reflective and incident meters, and metering. Specific approaches of substitution, tonal placement, dark tone, highlight metering, and average value metering are also presented.

Exposure Basics

Exposure allows the image to be captured. Because sensors, unlike film, cannot accept overexposure and are noisy in very dark areas of exposure, ...