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What is optimal exposure?
What is optimal exposure?
- Exposure that only contains detail in the highlights
- Exposure that contains no highlights or shadows
- Exposure that only contains detail in the shadows
- Exposure that contains detail in the highlights, shadows, and a good tonal range (correct)
What happens when a photo is over-exposed?
What happens when a photo is over-exposed?
- The image will be too dark
- The image will be blurry
- The image will be too bright and lose shadows (correct)
- The image will have no highlights
What is aperture?
What is aperture?
- The amount of time the shutter is open
- The size of the opening in the lens when a picture is taken (correct)
- The amount of light let into the camera
- The sensitivity of the image sensor to light
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Study Notes
- Exposure is the act of exposing the image sensor to light.
- Optimal exposure contains detail in the highlights, shadows and a good tonal range.
- Over-exposure results in a too bright image and lost shadows.
- Under-exposure results in a too dark image and no highlights.
- Digital cameras can be set to automatic or manual mode.
- In automatic mode, the camera determines the three components (shutter speed, aperture, and ISO).
- In manual mode, the photographer decides on the three components.
- Aperture is the size of the opening in the lens when a picture is taken.
- Aperture is measured in f-stops.
- Changing one component can balance the effect of another component.
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