Video: How to use a Light Meter
With the recent articles we have done on portrait lighting and the use of light meters we have had a bunch of requests to do an actual demonstration of how to use a meter in an actual real-world environment. Light meters aren’t difficult to use or understand once you have had a chance to see how they work and the “mystery” about them is removed.
In this video Kerry demonstrates using a simple light meter in a product shoot.
How to use a light meter from Kerry Garrison on Vimeo.
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Very informative, thankyou!
It would be great to show a 'meter as read' photo to compare.
In the case of the subject being shot, a black phone on a black shelf, the “camera meter” reading of two stops underexposed would have basically created a black image with a sliver of white where the wall is shown.
In an upcoming article we will show how to use a light meter for portraits which is much more complex and will build up the lighting one step at a time.
Something is wonky with the video, there is a section that repeats a couple of times. I am rebuilding the video and uploading it again to see if it will fix itself. Sorry for the inconvenience.
is it me or some parts of this video are repeating?
sorry about the earlier post…i didn't see the rest of the comments!
deja vu?!
Video has been fixed.
No, it was just a glitch in the matrix
Thanks for doing this. YES! I am looking forward to more. I wonder how to take an outdoor ambient reading and then adding an off-camera flash and getting a reading so that the fill looks natural.
Were you using an image stabilized lens at 1/30 sec? …That was a great example of camera metering gone wrong. Thanks!
Great little tutorial! Very useful!
Kerry thanks for the video on how to use a light meter,I wasnt sure on how to use one but your video was simple and to the point.Thanks again—bob—
Thanks I listen to your podcasts all the time on my iPhone
Ligtmeter video was short and sweet.Very informative.Thanks again.
Bill
Thanks, Well done
Thanks, Well done