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Exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on a sensor or film during the taking of a photograph. This is determined by the exposure time (shutter speed) and amount of light admitted (lens aperture). Today, sensor/film sensitivity (ISO speed) is often also considered to be part of exposure.

Exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on a sensor or film during the taking of a photograph. This is determined by the exposure time (shutter speed) and amount of light admitted (lens aperture). Today, sensor/film sensitivity (ISO speed) is often also considered to be part of exposure.

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What is an effective exposure strategy?

What strategy do you follow when setting ISO, shutter speed and aperture to achieve the correct exposure? Do you have different strategies for different shooting conditions? I believe that all photographers develop an informal strategy for choosing…
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How to choose the correct exposure?

I have a Canon 60D that I use for my primary hobby that is photography, but sometimes the pictures that I took are with the incorrect exposure like this: So I want to know how I can choose the correct exposure for situations like night, intense…
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How did people calculate exposure in the pre-light meter era?

i watched a video on pray pixel about a street photographer with a Leica film camera. So I read a bit about the mechanical Leica, and it said there was no built in light meter. Hailing from the DSLR era, how would one have calculated their exposure…
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Inconsistent exposure with same settings--why?

I have a Nikon D7100. I fired off a burst of shots at 6 fps at a static outdoor scene, all shots using the same settings: 1/125 s, f/7.1, ISO 100. Some of the shots are clearly darker, some are clearly brighter. While variation is not extreme, it…
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Do cameras have a mode where they take a picture, check if highlights are correctly exposed and then adjust the settings?

As we all know automatic exposure can be very unreliable and often results in blown highlights if left on its own. So what photographers do (at least now that we have digital cameras) is take a photo, see if it looks good, and then adjust the…
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Why can't ISO, shutter and aperture speeds be controlled more precisely rather than sticking to a fixed scale?

Each camera supports a standardized scale of ISOs, shutter and aperture speeds, adding or removing one stop of light at each value. Some cameras also support 1/3rd stop increments which adds a bit more of a scale. But why can't the speeds be…
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Are these too grainy to be salvaged?

I shot these in a basketball court with good lighting. However, I had used a high ISO on all images to balance the tight shutter speed for capturing the quick motions of the derby girls. So I get home and insert my memory card, ready to run basic…
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Scene exposure where there's black-blacks, white-whites and a mid grey subject?

The scene contains high key highlights (a X/10 on Ansell's System PLUS Black (0 on Ansell's). Your subject - a mountain - is a mid range (5 - Ansell again). To get the best exposure in the photograph you spot meter (with a handheld meter) say the…
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How much exposure (in lux second) required for camera to yield middle gray image?

As I know, for any lighting condition, there is a recommended/indicated/correct exposure value for the camera to render the object as middle gray. The indicated exposure value can be calculated from the scene luminance and illuminance using the…
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What does Exposure Bias 12/6 EV mean?

is this the same as EV +2? which is two steps from 'normal exposure'. It was taken from the information on a photo I saw taken with a Nikon
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When should I use different methods of increasing exposure?

I am trying to understand something that is really confusing me. If I want to make a captured image brighter I can do this in many ways. I can Leave the shutter open for longer Make the aperture wider Increase the ISO Use a flash Do something else…
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How Avoid Vignetting using a variable ND filter

My camera is Nikon D700 Lens 28-300mm Lens 24-70mm I have a Variable ND filter 77mm size How do I avoid vignetting around the edges of the filter? thank you.
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FZ300 Can I change the viewfinder and screen exposure?

I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ300, I set the camera in bracketing mode, then I reduced the exposure in such a way that the third picture is the one with the correct exposure. Trouble is that the viewfinder shows the exposure of the first picture, it is…
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How to meter for no lens on camera?

Assume for a moment that I wanted to take photographs with my SRL with no lens attached. Suppose that I wanted to get extremely blurry, mostly solid color photographs. How would I set the camera's shutter speed to achieve a "proper exposure" of my…
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Unable to get same results when using manual replicating automatic setting

Some times before I shoot in low light situation, I put my camera in auto to see the settings to use as a baseline and tweak the setting from there. However, oftentimes, I am forced to use the auto because I would have to use to slow of a shutter…
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