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we talked about how to read and adjust
your settings based on a light meter but
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what exactly is the light meter using to
get its reading and this is where we
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jump into metering modes the metering
mode is essentially what the camera is
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looking at in the scene to give you a
certain reading on that light meter now
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one of the most is known as basically
averaging ok so averaging is where the
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camera takes all of the bright and dark
valleys of a scene and just imagine that
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scene is being presented thus a black
and white it takes the brightest value
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to take the darkest valleys and averages
everything together now based on say the
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majority of images that are captured
camera makers have come out to say
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essentially a scene on average should be
some around 18% great if we balance out
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all the whites and all the blacks we get
somewhere to that little middle grade
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point this is what the camera when
averaging considers is a technically
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correct exposure now the problem that is
after shooting a scene as very bright
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say on the beach its gonna give you a
very bright reading the camera might
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tell you that it's over exposed when in
reality you're just shooting a bright
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seen likewise if you're shooting a dark
scenes say someone is wearing a dark
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suit well the suit itself is darker than
18% gray and so again the cameras gonna
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give you a funky reading is gonna say
that is underexposed when in reality
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it's just a dark suit so this is
averaging is doing is taking everything
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in the scene and is averaging in
together to figure out whether the scene
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is correctly exposed if it is we know
that our light meter pops right into
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that zero point are right where that
middle arrow is in the center of the
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light meter another way of meeting is
basically partial metering and partial
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metering essentially is going to take a
certain partial area of our scene and
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it's only going to consider the overall
explosion that one little area now
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partial metering could be safe spot
metering which we've used a lot in spot
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metering is just using that tiny center
point that small 32 45 percent area of
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the image and every care maker it does
very little bit but it only read the
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exposure that tiny little area so
whatever that spot meter is over at the
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time that's where the reading is gonna
come from if the spot meters over a
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braai area that's what it's going to be
if it's over skin which we've been using
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a lot will your meeting then over skin
so partial metering is only metering off
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of one
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mall area some cameras do allow you to
actually move the area based on the auto
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focus point some cameras don't the rebel
does not actually my by the mark he
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doesn't either I think it's always
centered based on that center AF point
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when you're using the spot meter ok so
we have averaging and we have partial
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metering what about the next then third
primary way of measuring what we call it
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basically a multi zone metering system
in this is essentially where the camera
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itself will break apart in a tire seen
it might break it into four pieces might
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be 16 pieces that could be thousands of
pieces but this is known as evaluative
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or matrix metering on different cameras
and what is doing is a breaking the seal
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up in all these different zone is
running this complex algorithm that is
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essentially based on every single
cameras so we don't really know what
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it's doing Canon cameras they do a
certain thing rebels are I'm sorry Sony
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cameras they do certain things icons do
a certain thing Panasonic that certain
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thing all of these evaluative metering
systems are all different depending on
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the manufacture because of that we
really don't know what they're doing now
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oftentimes they get the right exposure
but oftentimes they don't in particular
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when you're basically using a type of
senior composing your scene with saying
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off-center type composition it doesn't
expect that so the zone metering systems
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are our little bit kind of difficult to
use I'd recommend using or at least
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avoiding them for the most part the
reason is that with these different zone
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or multi-zone type metering systems we
don't know what it's doing you'll never
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understand exactly what the camera doing
because these are all proprietary for
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each camera maker and each brand ok so
what we would stick to typically is
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going to be some sort of averaging or
partial metering system and I'm going to
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show you now come in between so let's go
ahead and I'm gonna bring up my little
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dialogue here on the back of its gonna
take you to bring it up and we can hit
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this little meeting but I love touch
screens are gonna go ahead and touch it
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and get it all done with my fingers so
right now it's an evaluative now this is
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that multi-zone metering system for
Canon they referred to as a palliative
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Nikon called there's matrix everybody
call it something different next we have
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partial metering on this camera now this
is basically give us a select areas only
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in a red light from that area but
typically again because I don't know
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exactly where it's reading I prefer
something like the spot meter which is
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going to be the next ones let's go ahead
and go to the spot meter
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with the spot meter it's only using that
very specific center area that three to
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five percent area and this makes it
absolutely beautiful force a metering
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skin tones on a portrait for meetings
this guy anything in particular
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okay and then finally let me go and
bring that back up again we have center
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weighted average now it's kind of a
mixture center weighted average of 10
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we've kind of set as a really in between
one we're using averaging workspace
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gonna averaged out the entire scene but
center weighted means that is gonna give
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more preference or more weight to the
center area the image so it's kinda like
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mixing partial and averaging now the two
that I use most when I'm shooting is
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basically spot metering if I'm shooting
a scene where have complete control over
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the scene like for example this one I
always do spot metering because it