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Chapter 6 Camera Exposure and Handling

DOI: 10.4324/9780240814667-6

**Measuring Light**. A memorial service was held for Deputy Game Warden Ernest Berry, who had been murdered in pursuit of a poacher. Left on automatic, the camera’s light meter would have measured the brightness of the sky and produced an underexposed picture.
(Jeffrey D. Allred, *Desert News*)

When you first enter a dark room, everything appears black. Then your pupils open and your eyes gradually adapt to the darkness. Now you can begin to see details in the room that were at first obscured. Your eyes have temporarily become more light sensitive. When you go out again into bright ...

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