Introduction to Digital Photography
Measurement
A course by Jesús G. Pastor , Photographer
About the video: Measurement
Overview
“Important, fundamental. The camera measures, by default, all the light in the scene. And on that calculation we adjust the -2, 0, +2. The central and punctual measurement will help us to fine tune the correct exposure in complex situations where there are areas of the scene with lots of light and others with very little.”
In this video lesson Jesús G. Pastor addresses the topic: Measurement, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Photography. Learn to control the basic parameters of your reflex camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“Measurement Now we are going to address a fundamental tool. In fact, it is the most important thing we should control in the camera and that most of the cameras you have They have this option, which is how we measure light. We were clear that light is important, that everything with all that we will modify the speed, etc. But we can measure all the light the camera receives, we can measure the light of the central zone of the sensor Or we can measure the light of the specific area. Here on the slide we see a diagram of the evaluation, of the evaluative, the partial, the central or the punct...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Photography
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Jesús G. Pastor
A course by Jesús G. Pastor
The path of Jesús G. Pastor, a journalist by training, led him little by little towards images, always with a connection to social assistance. As an inveterate traveler, he spent two uninterrupted years in Asia, in addition to a month or more in Lebanon, Syria, Mexico, and Cuba, and two years living in the Balkans in the former Yugoslavia. It was during his travels that Jesús developed his photographic style.
Currently, he is a professor in a higher-level vocational training degree in Image and Sound. He has taught corporate communication workshops for Amnesty International and on travel photography, authorial photography, and digital retouching (especially Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw).
He has been published in national press (La Vanguardia, Público, Metro, Avui, Interviu, Periodismo Humano, The Huffington Post) and internationally (Travel Africa Magazine, Sunday Times, Corbis, Demotix, ACNUR), has worked for companies and NGOs, and has won awards for his work at a waste disposal site in Phnom Phen.
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