How To Use A Light Meter

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Summary: Learn how to use a light meter with your digital camera to get different effects and improve your pictures in this free photography video.

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Chris C. Conklin Ever since Chris Conklin was a little child growing up in Southern California, his interest in photography has been at his core. This passion continued to gro... read more

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How To Use A Light Meter

Hello my name is Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. Okay let us talk about a couple of other little issues. Now one of them would be like a light meter. A lot of people especially if you are going to be working on portraits in a studio or with a light kit that is going to have strobes on it or an environment where you need to know exactly how to match up the lighting situation to the camera that you are using. You are going to need some sort of light meter and then test the light meter, move your lights around accordingly so that you are going to come out with the balanced more even… when you are shooting portraits or head shots things of that nature that are not necessarily doing a lot of movement. Now, one thing to remember is your color temperature. Your outside temperatures typically run around 5600 on your luminous or lux factor. For your indoors it is going to be about 3200 on your lux factor. Make sure those are properly set as well as the lighting that matches it and again use the light meter, set it correctly and adjust the camera and lighting to give you the effect that you are looking for.