March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English

As I mentioned, the default metering on today’s cameras (labeled Matrix or Evaluative on most cameras) is so good that I rarely have to switch metering modes. In fact, the only time I might is when I’m in a tricky lighting situation and my camera is either underexposing or overexposing the scene by quite a bit. The reason this happens is that your camera’s default metering mode averages the light in the entire image to make what it thinks is an overall good exposure. But, when it’s a tricky lighting situation, that average reading can sometimes be wrong, and you wind up with a really dark or really bright image. ...
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