David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...An Exposure Value is a method of stating exposure settings using a single number to represent a range of equivalent combinations of aperture and shutter speed. The Exposure Value unit is one stop. EV0 is a shutter speed of 1 sec at f/1.0...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Bracketing is intentional over- and underexposure from the indicated exposure, usually done in whole or half stops. When the best exposure may not be that indicated by the light meter, bracketing gives the photographer a choice of images...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A neutral density (ND) filter reduces light intensity equally across the spectrum. It can be used to adjust exposure when it is not desirable or not possible to change the lens aperture – as with some reflex (mirror) lenses). ND filters let...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Aperture is just another word for hole. The hole in question is that in the centre of the lens iris (or diaphragm). Adjusting the size of the hole controls the intensity of the light passed by the lens. Changing aperture therefore becomes...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Reflected light meters – like the one in your camera – are calibrated to provide an exposure reading that will reproduce an average scene, i.e. mid-grey. An overall dark scene will be overexposed to produce a grey image and a light scene...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...With film cameras, a double exposure was a common hazard of forgetting to wind the film on between pictures. Two or more images can be made on the same piece of film (double or multiple exposures). A subject can appear two or three times...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The mode is marked A (aperture) or AV (aperture value) on the camera mode dial or menu. Aperture priority is ideal for portraiture or some garden photography, when a wide aperture is chosen to keep the background out of sharp focus.Aperture...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Both Program and Auto Exposure modes set shutter speed and aperture automatically; Auto mode will also use the built-in camera flash in low light situations in preference to a long shutter speed or wide aperture.A camera light meter can...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Exposure is the act of making a photograph. Technically, it is also the total amount of light that is allowed to fall on the film or sensor in the camera. Light falling on the photosensitive material has intensity or brightness (how wide...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Shutter priority is a semi-automatic exposure mode that lets the photographer choose a shutter speed while the camera automatically chooses a matching aperture to produce a good exposure.Shutter priority is ideal for times when a fast...
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