How to manage and control light
As you all know, I am a “binnelander” (live inland…in afrikaans) but I grew up in Kwazulu Natal, close to the sea. Since I have been doing photography, the sea is one of my favourite landscape subjects. I love its moods, its colours and its shapes and movement. Last week I was down in Ballito…
To follow on from my last “getting it right” post we will continue looking at exposure. Please understand that I am really giving some basic tips about exposure, you can go into serious detail about exposure, in fact, whole books have been written on the subject. You can look at things like Ansel Adams Zone…
So here goes, the first of the getting it right series. I am going to discuss the theory and the practicalities of exposure, but firstly let me define what exposure means photographically. When I talk about exposure, I am talking about the amount of light that is enabled to fall onto photosensitive medium such as…
