One of the most important things that you will be interacting with is your camera’s light meter. Photography is all about capturing the light that bounces off of various surfaces, and makes its way through your camera lens to the image-capture device in the back of your camera. Along the way, the amount of light that is captured and fixed as an image is influenced by several parts of the camera that you have control over. Light, however, is ethereal. I can’t give you a box of light, nor can I hand you five foot-candles ...

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