My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.
Last week I already shared some nature shots I made during a family walk.
Because we still had some snow we went out again last weekend, here are some of the shots I took during the 2 hour family walk through the “waterloop bos” close to Marknesse, which again is close to our home 🙂
Today a few images from the workshop we did this weekend with Susanne.
In this case it was the Workshop Studio Technique I.
Something a lot of people struggle with when calibrating the light meter is the calibration… on this blog I have a special selection on light meters (check it out :-)).
When I teach my students to calibrate the meter to the camera I always use an 18% gray card and shoot this in a as flat as possible light situation and make sure that in the workflow I use the values for this card are 128.128.128
Here is where the confusion starts.
Some cameras are calibrated different, cameras use reflective metering and are set in values between 12-18% gray. Meaning that some cameras will yield different exposures, which can be compensated. A lot of this has to do with the gamma curves and different colorspaces. For example when we look at LAB a gamma curve of around 2.47 will Yield a 128.128.128 value, but mostly gammas of 1.8 and 2.2 are used in colorspaces like sRGB and ProPhotoRGB.
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We all know the expression “the best camera is the one that you have with you”
And nothing is more true of course.
Some people just forget that when we shoot something the most important thing is not the gear we shoot the images with, but the story it tells. And in that case it really does not matter which camera it was shot with.
The shots in this blogpost for example are all done with my iPhone 4S, I do have to add that I did some post processing on them with Snapseed from NIK and Plastic Bullet, but all retouching was done in the iPhone 4S.
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