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Originally Posted by kgphoto

EH,

I have clipped only those areas that I am commenting on. Ready, Aim . . . lol

I think you have most of it down, but some of your wording is a little awkward and may lead some astray.

I absolutely agree! You're very correct... "only" should not have been used. Good catch!

Originally Posted by kgphoto

RE: "Similar to the iris of the eye, the aperture allows in light. Think of it like this: the more light, the smaller the opening needs to be (more light= higher f/stops) and the less light, the larger the f/stop (no light= small f/stops). "

Here's the most problematic language. More light doesn't equal higher f:stops, but more light means you need the higher numbered f:stops, since they let in less light.

So it may be more clear to say, that the larger openings use the smaller numbers and the Larger the opening, the more light is let in for any given shutter speed.

Again, you're absolutely right about my wording. Instead of equal signs I probably shouldn't found an alternative joining thing-- like maybe my favorite series of dots.

Originally Posted by kgphoto

Incident light meters measure the light falling on the subject and are held at the subject and pointed at each light source to measure relative ratios, but for an overall exposure are point at the camera from the subject position. When metering the surroundings, they are held at the surrounding, i.e. the background, and pointed at the camera. If you are talking about an accent i.e. rim light, you point it at the light source whether that is the sky from open shade or a studio strobe or flash.

I don't have meters, so thank you for clarifying this.

Originally Posted by kgphoto

As to your section on metering, you need to meter more than the highest and darkest and average. You need multiple points so you can predict how they will reproduce and then you can decide where to slide the range where it will do the most good, or how much light to add or remove to make the best image.

Interesting. I'll give that a try because I certainly wasn't doing that; at the very most I was doing three- light and dark, with an ocassional middle depending on the actual scene, but worried the third was overkill.

Originally Posted by kgphoto

Finally each COMBINATION of f:stop and shutter speed count at one, unless you are only talking about flash then shutter speed contributes little. This is too complicated a relationship to be reduced to one sentence.

Yes, I see where adding that one word better represents what I typed! Another good catch!

Originally Posted by kgphoto

I hope that clears things up. Feel free to improve my descriptions as well. I see cyclohexane caught some of this too.

I think you did a fantastic job!