Light Meter Tutorials

How to use your hand-held light meter in digital photography.

This course is designed for those photographers who have just begun using a hand held light meter or who may not know what to do with their meters. or why they are important and useful tools for making images.

The light meter is a device that measures the intensity of light, whether that light is being reflected from a subject (reflected light) or falling upon the subject (ambient or "incident" light). The light meter is a tool that helps a photographer create more accuracy in exposures.

We use video and a few PDF's to show how to use a light meter in both reflective and ambient modes. There are three exercises to be done by the student that will help them learn their specific meter.

*WHAT YOU WILL LEARN*

✔ Introduction to Light Meters

✔ An Introduction to Why I Use a Meter

✔ What a Light Meter Does

✔ Setting the Meter Up for YOU

✔ Finding Exposure Values with an Reflected Light Meter

✔ Photoshop Discussion of "Target" Shoot

✔ Using a Meter to "Place" the Exposure

✔ "Finding Middle Gray" an Exercise to Develop Seeing Tonality

✔ "Placing" the Exposure: Forest in Deep Overcast

✔ Paige in Natural Light with Camera Meter

✔ Ambient Light Meter Introduction

✔ Ambient Light Meter Introduction Part Two

✔ Dome to Camera or Sun: In Photoshop

✔ Incident Light Meter and Photos: A Discussion

✔ Incident (Ambient) Light Meter in Studio

✔ First... Find the Ambient Light: Part One

✔ Ambient and Flash - a Discussion

*FEATURES*

• Lifetime access to 17 lectures

• 2+ hours of high quality content

• A community of 4900+ students learning together!

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*WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE*

"This is an amazing course. I have had a light meter for sometime but never got the hang of using it, kept regretting why i bought it. Now i realise it was a sound investment. This course is a must for anyone who is serious about photography."

-(Inayat Abbas Firdousi ) ★★★★★

"I really enjoyed this course the more I watched. Learning to use a light meter was great but the course also consolidated my understanding of exposure. The last couple of lectures on use of a strobe were also very informative. Overall, I highly recommend this course to any intermediate photographers."

-(Steve Borbiro ) ★★★★★

"This is the best explanation of how a light meter works and how to use it that I have ever seen. After watching the course, I feel like I totally understand their purpose and function, and I know it will make me a better photographer."

-(Olivia Kirkham ) ★★★★★

Instructed By : Don Giannatti | Photographer, Designer, Author and Educator

Don Giannatti has been a photographer for more than four decades. Starting with a desire to do fine art photography, he quickly made the jump into commercial. Over the decades he has owned studios in Phoenix, New York, Chicago and LA. A wide range of clients kept him shooting everything from studio product to fashion, beauty and travel.

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