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When our subject is backlit, we have a number of options:<\/p>\n
Exposing for our subject, very often gives us this kind of ethereal look as the strong light from the background causes internal lens flare.<\/p>\n
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Exposure metering using the camera’s histogram<\/a>, is a fairly simple way of working. But you have to meter just for your subject, and not have any part of the background show. The super-bright background will just influence your meter and cause under-exposure. When you meter off a white tone, then you have to accordingly adjust your camera’s meter reading. This article on\u00a0using the histogram to determine exposure<\/a>\u00a0explains it in more detail.<\/p>\n The screen capture there of the histogram as it appeared in Photoshop, shows what we’re trying to do with the brightest relevant tone (ie, white) of your subject – we’re pushing it to the edge of the histogram.<\/p>\n This gives us a baseline correct exposure. But we’ll still have to adjust the image in post-processing:<\/p>\n The image can look washed out on your camera’s preview. Actually, it will<\/strong> look washed out on your camera. We therefore need to increase the contrast and add more punch to the image. The two controls I adjust first, would be the Blacks<\/strong> slider, and the Contrast<\/strong> slider. From there I would adjust the rest, according to taste. The Whites<\/strong> slider is also pulled down to control how much of the image is washed out.<\/p>\n All of the changes to these settings, will make the image appear darker. So it might be necessary to pull the Exposure<\/strong> slider up a bit.<\/p>\n And there’s the basic RAW file, with various adjustments. The photograph (as a JPG), was then sweetened a bit further in Photoshop.<\/p>\n Even though I had to adjust the Exposure of the RAW file, getting to a good basic in-camera exposure for the strongly backlit image, was the best starting point.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exposure metering for a backlit subject, using the histogram When our subject is backlit, we have a number of options: expose for the background, and then either: — go for a (semi) silhouette, — add light to your subject to balance their exposure with that of the background. expose carefully for our subject, and let Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,464],"tags":[870,532],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exposure-metering","8":"category-olena","9":"tag-exposure-metering","10":"tag-using-the-histogram","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39113,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions\/39113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/olena\/_tangents\/NV1_7279.png\")
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