hello achal, i mean that often my pictures are over or under exposed
because i don't intuitively know what exposure combination will give
the feeling tone i mean to convey. highlights are blown to white and
shadows are blocked, beyond redemption.
/going to find out what reciprocity means, photographically speaking.
cheers
maggie
p.s. it's much easier to paint. photography isn't for sissies.
On Apr 27, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Achal Pashine wrote:
i still have little, by which i mean, no, idea, what i'm
doing when it comes to exposure and so on. there's a chart that i'm
trying to memorise but i'm hopeless when i'm in the moment.
Hello Maggie,
nice to see your e-mail.
I just don't understand why and what you have to memorise in order to
make a good exposure.
In all simplicity if should be quite simple, if you know what and how
to compose, know the principle of reciprocity (don't worry yet about
its failure), know how to choose the aperture or a time based on your
desire to have precise/selective focus and/or the speed of capture,
and if your camera has some kind of a niddle/number based light meter.
any basic book/internet will give you this logic.
Dark room use definitely is a very rewarding experience, but it is
not a necessity for enjoying and creating good photographs IMHO.
again, as I said, this is IMHO and it is possible that I don't
understand your difficulty or dilemma.
Achal
