Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition

280 WORKING ON LOCATION

you will certainly let your camera determine the balance between your ash

and the ambient light at the scene.

If, on the other hand, you are photographing a room interior for the

cover of a major magazine, you will need to balance the ambient and arti-

cial light carefully. To do this, you will decrease your shutter speed for more

of the ambient light. Or you will increase the shutter speed for less ambient

light.

If the above changes in the shutter speed make the image either too light

or too dark, you can then adjust the aperture to compensate and get the

balance of both you desire.

DIFFERENT APPROACHES

Another way to deal with backlighting—again, in this case, from the sun—is

to use a reector of some kind. ...