March 2014
Beginner to intermediate
66 pages
1h 41m
English
book
Photographing Indoor Sports: The Right Settings, Gear, and Tips for Shooting Basketball, Martial Arts, and Other Low-light Sports
by Alan Hess
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Metering Modes
A photograph is a record of the light reflecting off a subject. The shutter speed, aperture, and ISO determine how much of that light is allowed to reach the sensor. Too much light and the image is overexposed; too little light and the image is underexposed. So how do you determine how much light needs to be recorded for a proper exposure? You need to measure the available light in the scene and set the camera accordingly. Cameras feature three metering modes that each “look at” the light in the scene differently. The Nikon cameras I use offer spot metering, center-weighted metering, and matrix metering.
• Spot Metering. Spot metering only looks at a small part of the whole scene and ignores the rest. In the past, the spot metering ...
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