How does a GREY card work?

What is a Grey Card? A grey card is designed to help photographers to adjust their exposure and white balance settings consistently by providing a reference point. This reference point will set a white balance, or color balance, point for a particular image set and all images captured thereafter.

How do I choose metering mode?

Choosing the right exposure metering mode helps you better control your exposures. It’s important to look at the light and tone in your composition. Then determine the most important area to expose for. The more contrast there is, the more important it is to meter well.

What gray do meters measure?

In technical terms, the shade that meters see is called 18 percent gray, and it isn’t a bad color to have on your living-room wall. (Especially if you like to display framed photographs there.)

What is the best metering mode for street photography?

Centre Weighted Metering Mode for Street Photography If you want to make sure that the person is exposed properly then you want to use the Centre Weighted Metering Mode for this task. It will expose correctly for the subject, ignoring the sun, the clouds and anything else around the frame.

What metering mode is best for landscapes?

The best general metering mode for landscape photography is the matrix meter/multi. When shooting wide and vast landscapes, this metering mode allows you to calculate the average light of the main elements in your frame so you can get the perfect histogram.

What are the two types of exposure meters?

There are two types of light meters: incident-light meters and reflected-light meters.

How do you measure light exposure?

A light meter is a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter (more correctly an exposure meter) is used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph.