Our in class exercise had us position our subject in front of a window, with daylight directly behind them. We set up a light in front with a blue gel and then white balanced our camera.
1) In this first shot we used Manual Iris and set our Exposure by what was acceptable to our own eyes. My F-Stop in this shot was 4.
2) Next we set the camera to Auto-Iris. When we expose for a shot, getting a good exposure on the subjects face is our priority. As you can see in the screenshot below Auto-Iris wasn't ideal when it came to this as it took all of the background and surrounding light in the frame into consideration.
3) In Auto-Iris still we zoomed into the subjects face, switched the camera to Manual, and then reframed. This gave a much nicer exposure to our subject.
4) For our fourth shot we turned on Zebra's on the camera. In Manual Iris we overexposed our subject to show Zebras, then closed the aperture until the zebras had disappeared.
5) This shot was exposed using the Light Meter. We took a reading of our subject, then set our exposure accordingly.
6) For our final shot we opened our F-stop 1/3 above the previous exposure. On the Sony we had to open to 3.4 as it could not open 1/3 stop.
In reflection, did this exercise reveal or emphasize anything for you?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say that it revealed anything really, but it did emphasize the point that it's not ideal to simply rely on the camera to get the best exposure for you automatically. Like you have said, these are all simply tools- and they should be treated as such not as the answer to every situation.
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