In photography…light is everything. Understanding how your camera reads light and determines correct exposure is hands down the most important thing your camera does, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Your camera has different ways that it reads light by using an internal light meter, and depending on which metering mode you have your camera set on, it determines the correct exposure. For the most part, the metering mode is untouched buried in the camera settings, because for the most part, when you’re in the Matrix…life is good. Matrix is the default metering mode for all modern Nikon DSLR camera bodies, also known as Evaluative Metering for Canon, and is often never changed, actually it’s recommended by many that you not change it because it works so well, but that’s not always the case. I’m going to explain a little bit about leaving the Matrix default mode and why you would want to such a crazy thing, but first I’m going to do a quick explanation about what metering is exactly.
Read MoreA few recent photos of mine picked by Flickr for their EXPLORE Gallery.
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few teaser shots from this past Saturday's engagement shoot...I even broke out a little freelensing! Check them out!
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did a shoot with these three girls for Cass Imaging, showing their before photos when they first arrived at the studio, and then the final edited head shot. When using a D800, the detail that comes along with 36MP can be absolutely amazing when shooting landscapes, but when it comes to portrait work, it's a little different. Its still amazing and the detail in the RAW images are like no other, but you need to know how to edit properly for it to work to your advantage. Extreme detail is awesome in certain areas of a portrait, but not so awesome in others, so you need to know where to leave that detail...and when to dull it down a bit. Here are three before shots, basically RAW images uploaded into Lightroom 4 and a little sharpness applied, not much. The final images were taken after the girls applied their makeup and each was edited in Lightroom, the way I edit all my portrait work. It was a fun shoot, so I through in a few of the goofy shots that we got. The setup for these was simple, one strobe camera left shot into umbrella, one strobe on the floor shot against backdrop, both triggered by Nikon CLS. Camera was the D800 with a Sigma 85mm F1.4. You can click on each image to see a larger version of it. Enjoy!
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