Learning to meter from the begining - with the Zone system

[Overread]

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The start of a series of youtube vids which introduces you to the idea of both using your camera meter to meter a scene through to how to use the zone system to help set yourself correct exposures.

 

[white]

Good information. Thank you.

 

[pbelarge]

An interesting start, I wonder how good the series will be. I also wonder how long between each video.
You know we are all impatient.

 

[Overread]

hmm it should show up the links to parts 2 3 and so on after the video plays through
If that is not working I'll add in the links above

 

[kelli_anne]

I love the zone system, I was taught in my film class! It may seem hard to start out with, but ones you understand it, it will be come your best friend!!

 

[Antarctican]

Enough of the intro, I want the first lesson!!



EDIT:after seeing Overread's comment re the other parts were to follow, I poked around a bit and found 'em

 

[Overread]

hehe don't worry I've linked the rest of the series in now - so no excuses

 

[christopher walrath]

Ever the mentor. This could be an invaluable resource for TPF. Keep it up.

 

[KmH]

Nice series of videos.

Thanks for posting them. :thumbup:

 

[KmH]

It just dawned on me this series of videos serves as a good advetisement for Nikons color aware metering system and make one wonder what has taken Canon so long to do the same.

 

[Overread]

I did get the feeling that it was a nikon shooter -- mostly as the guys lightmeter is backwards! That has got to be confusing when comparing it to the histogram in camera

 

[myfotoguy]

Thanks for sharing this. I was going to write a series on metering for my blog, I may just refer to these videos instead (giving you credit for discovering them and sharing them here).

Anyway, thanks. I really appreciate how you help so many folks around here.

 

[KmH]

Thanks for sharing this. I was going to write a series on metering for my blog, I may just refer to these videos instead (giving you credit for discovering them and sharing them here).

Anyway, thanks. I really appreciate how you help so many folks around here.

Don't forget to also give credit to the copyright owners of the Videos. :thumbup:

 

[myfotoguy]

Thanks for sharing this. I was going to write a series on metering for my blog, I may just refer to these videos instead (giving you credit for discovering them and sharing them here).

Anyway, thanks. I really appreciate how you help so many folks around here.

Don't forget to also give credit to the copyright owners of the Videos. :thumbup:

Exactly, I definitely planned on doing that. Although, as I looked into it, it appears to me that those videos may not be the original work of the user that posted them. I wonder if they came from a DVD or something, so I'm going to skip it. I didn't see any creidt our source given on YouTube.

 

[myfotoguy]

But this morning, I realized that I think he meant that if you're taking a picture of something that is a pastel green, you should set your exposure for one stop up on the light meter in order to get that color to show up correctly in your image.......

I don't recall the stop amount for pastel green, was it one or two stops? I'm not at a place to check either. I reviewed it late as well.

Whichever amount it was, the portion I quoted from you is correct. It's to render the exposure for the scene properly. Using the natural colors as kind of a gray card, but adjusting based on the knowledge of where the colors actually fall on the scale. So by metering the pastel green, knowing it's as top or two off, and adjusting based on that, the entire scene should be rendered "correctly".

From that point, creative decisions can be made as you may not want to expose it "how it's supposed to be" you may want to under or over expose to do something creative with how the light and shadows are in the scene.

I hope I made sense.