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I learned some things while out with my camera ton | by radiowave911 | 2008-03-20 19:19:51 |
| You have a Nikon D80, right? |
by Tomo |
2008-03-20 23:17:22 |
With that camera you shouldn't need a light meter for shots as bright as the gazebo.
What you can do is set the auto-exposure meter to the "." option - this way it only meters one point in the centre of the image.
There's a dot in the viewfinder that indicates the location of this point.
Ensure you're in Full Manual - the camera will almost always get it wrong in all of the program modes, including shutter and aperture priority.
Now fiddle with the aperture and shutter speed settings - it's easy on the Nikons as they have two wheels under your thumb and forefinger that independently adjust these settings.
While you do this, watch the exposure bar at the bottom of the viewfinder - it'll show whether the centre point of the image is under or over-exposed.
Move the camera to put the centre dot over the parts of the subject that you're interested in, while watching the exposure bar.
When you're happy that nothing of interest is too much over or under-exposed, frame the shot and release the shutter.
This is my main method of night shooting - it's probably not a method one would ever learn in photography school, but it seems to work quite well and doesn't require any calculations. |
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