Podcast #74 – Back to the Basics – Composition with Roberto Valenzuela
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Podcast #74 – Back to the Basics – Composition with Roberto Valenzuela
January 19, 2010 – 6:34 pm | Comments

This week we go back to the basics and talk about composition with our good friend Roberto Valenzuela.
Roberto talks about composition and gives the following guidelines:

Choose a selective focusing technique
Placement and composition of your main …

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Due to our hosting company, BlueHost.com, not having redundant drives or even backups, during a recent hard drive failure all of the images in the articles here have been lost. The originals are available and are being re-edited and uploaded as fast as I can. Needless to say, I will be changing hosting providers at my earliest convenience. I apologize for the inconvenience. -Kerry

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Video: How to use a Light Meter

Submitted by KerryG on June 25, 2009 – 8:07 pmComments

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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About the Author: Kerry Garrison is a wedding, portrait, and product photographer living in southern California. With 10 years of experience shooting products and 3 years of experience in the wedding industry, Kerry brings a good deal of technical know-how and can explain topics in easy-to-understand terms. Kerry's work can be found at http://kerrygarrison.com and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KerryGarrison

  • Iram Rolon
    Thanks, Well done
  • billpagejr
    Thanks I listen to your podcasts all the time on my iPhone
    Ligtmeter video was short and sweet.Very informative.Thanks again.
    Bill
  • bikerbob1
    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---
  • JP
    Great little tutorial! Very useful!
  • Gary Green
    Were you using an image stabilized lens at 1/30 sec? ...That was a great example of camera metering gone wrong. Thanks!
  • roger
    deja vu?!
  • No, it was just a glitch in the matrix
  • Kev
    sorry about the earlier post...i didn't see the rest of the comments!
  • Kev
    is it me or some parts of this video are repeating?
  • 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.
  • Video has been fixed.
  • 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.
  • Paul M.
    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.
  • Tom
    Very informative, thankyou!

    It would be great to show a 'meter as read' photo to compare.
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