Photography tips-How to use a light meter
by admin on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | 25 Comments
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obvioulsy they failed math! bad drugs and beer….:)
ok smarty pants, your right, technically speaking. But he’s also right.Sorta. He shoulda used dif words to explain what he was saying. He means the darkness of the shadow, and is calling that the ‘transfer’. In a sense, it works.
But, as you explained, transfer is the gradation from any one of the three tones (shadow, true or specular being the only three tones their are in a general lighting sense) to the other. To get technical. Rob
alright! what’s up with these guys. a two stop difference between f/8 and f/2.8. 2.8 – 4 – 5.6 – 8. am i getting something wrong here. it’s three stops.
Actually it’s exactly the other way around! The closer you put your light the softer the gradient between highlight and shadows will become. I guess he mixed that up.
Love NOBS videos. Can anyone tell me who makes the 4 rod diffuser? Use to using round spring fill-diffusers. This looks very compact.
Thanks a TON! Seems most folks doing tutorials are so much more interested in proving they know big words and theories as opposed to teaching something in a way that people can understand. Great job!
Great video!
thanks for uploading it!
Keep up the good work.
Thanks… exactly the skinny light meters I was looking for
Brilliant video, to the point! Nice to see people that are more practical than theoretical too. 5 Stars!
what is the spectral responce of the average meter?
I agree, but John (who explains it in the vid) syas the exact oppitite…right??
Really helpful vid, thanks a lot.
great Video. helped A LOT ^^
Thank You! So Much!!!
wow, you just cleared up a HUGE mystery for me -light meters. I just started shooting last year and I’m just now diving into studio lighting. I didn’t know what the hell light meters were for. Now I gotta go get me one. Thanks a lot, guys. I hope you know how helpful these videos are for us newbies. keep them coming.
Cut of in your prime at the end ……glad to see that you get gremlins as well great vid as said before keep up the good work with out guys like you we would all be in the dark ..pun there somewhere
best videos on the web keep them coming awesome job guys
You guys do such an awesome job of explaining without confusing the crap out of us. Thank you for that! Which Sekonic meter were you using in the video?
Good stuff – I’ll pass this along to all my newsletter subscribers.
Take that soft box and walk 2oo feet away, and it becomes much smaller, therefor more pointed and creating harder edges on the shadows or wherever the three tones meet.
Cool? Not too confusing is it……and very simple when you think of light as three tones. By the way, there are three ways light is affected:
*distance
*source
*angle
That’s it!
Same thing happens in the studio. Large softabox vs small spot light or small metal reflector. Different effects on the shadows.
This effects is being affected by the light source. Another way we can affect the egde transfer is by the distance the light is from the subject. Take a softbox, bring it in very, very close to the subject. It becomes like a large sky, oui non??
The line where ANY of those tones meet, is what is called edge transfer. Edge transfer can be soft or hard (fine) and varied degrees thereof. Thinks about it this way. Noon day sun. Light source: sun. Very small point in the sky, sorta like a flashlight. The lines it produces can be seen on your shadow as you are walking along the sidewalk: very fine and hard…right?
Same scenario, huge cloud covers the sun. What just happened to the shadow? It becomes softer and more ‘blended’, right?
John meant to say that as you bring the light back, the edge transfer becomes harder, not softer. What is edge transfer and how does it work?
Light has three tones, very simple: highlight, shadow, and true tones. The shadow is anything darker than the true tone, highlight is anything lighter, and the true, well, the true tone. Follow?
the stop reading says 8.0 does that mean 80 candles?
I mean the apparent size of the sun is really small and the transition zone open sunlight produces is really harsh. I would expect my falshes working the same way.