Any film, has a certain speed with a developer. The best practice is to try and find the true speed of the film with the developer you use most and then learn to meter properly. Pulling or over exposing in combination with reduced development can help with giving shadows detail, but it also compresses the mid tones. So its give and take. I prefer to expose at the proper speed but try and place the exposure correctly.
Exactly. But most of all pulling or pushing require a change in development and must be done with knowledge. Simply always overexposing, as is suggested by too many people now, is just wrong.
@@LuigiBarbano Correct. The worst thing is that a lot of these guys suggest something similar for digital, I think they call it exposing to the right. This can make sense in certain circumstances but if the operator was not experienced, it could easily result in blocked highlights.
@@LuigiBarbano There is a lot of wrong information on the Y.T channels. I once reminded a well known British photographer who was preaching to the novice, that altering the value of the digital iso setting does not alter the sensitivity of the sensor as it's a fixed value, but that it amplifies the signal as it's just a gain value of the amplifiers. You should have seen the army of know it all people who rushed to put me in my place and give their Y.T messenger support. Ridiculous.
@@lensman5762 yes, but with BS is easy to get more likes and make some bucks. Without BS I'm at $2 per video average, not even worth the time to edit it. It's the intrinsic problem of the social media era, in every field what creates money is the BS. Do you remember when politicians, on any side, had to explain their ideas, discuss it and convince people? Now politics is don with tweets. Snapshot and soundbites are the only thing needed to win the vote of the people. We live in culturally very sad times.
I hate technical books in english, but i liked your albums :) Hope that is good way to support the channel too. I personally would love more videos like this. I photograph for as long as I remember, but there is always something new to learn.
Thanks for your input. I will try to produce more technical videos... I'll see how this go :) Producing videos is really time consuming... at $2 for 1000 views is really not inspiring, that is why I promote my books. Btw, do you like novels? ;)
Yes and I am thinking of yours as form of support but I am Polish so getting novels in other languages takes me lots of time and thinking. For now I enjoy B&W stories, great images and not much text ;)
@@jerzyjablonski1432 Don't worry, I was just trying lol Glad you enjoy the B&W stories. Still the videos I enjoyed mostly to do. Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated.
Fantastic explanation about exposure, I can finally say that I understand what the ISO numbers mean. On the digital world, do the light meters also measure this medium grey colour or are they measuring something like a medium brown? Thanks!
exposure meters measure a light intensity, they are indifferent to colors. It's not easy at the beginning to get used to forget colors ant thing only in term of light intensity. In digital the problem is any camera interpret a little different the ISO and sometime underexpose a little to keep the highlights in control. I noticed my Fuji X-Pro 2 at 200 ISO is actually an 100 ISO if I use an external meter. Let say there is some flexibility in the ISO definition for digital and sometime manufacturers play with it. Thanks, glad you appreciated the video!
Thank You! Education over attention wins in my book. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Any film, has a certain speed with a developer. The best practice is to try and find the true speed of the film with the developer you use most and then learn to meter properly. Pulling or over exposing in combination with reduced development can help with giving shadows detail, but it also compresses the mid tones. So its give and take. I prefer to expose at the proper speed but try and place the exposure correctly.
Exactly. But most of all pulling or pushing require a change in development and must be done with knowledge.
Simply always overexposing, as is suggested by too many people now, is just wrong.
@@LuigiBarbano Correct. The worst thing is that a lot of these guys suggest something similar for digital, I think they call it exposing to the right. This can make sense in certain circumstances but if the operator was not experienced, it could easily result in blocked highlights.
@@lensman5762 yes. But videos suggesting a "magic' trick gets visualized and they do not care of correctness of the info but likes...
@@LuigiBarbano There is a lot of wrong information on the Y.T channels. I once reminded a well known British photographer who was preaching to the novice, that altering the value of the digital iso setting does not alter the sensitivity of the sensor as it's a fixed value, but that it amplifies the signal as it's just a gain value of the amplifiers. You should have seen the army of know it all people who rushed to put me in my place and give their Y.T messenger support. Ridiculous.
@@lensman5762 yes, but with BS is easy to get more likes and make some bucks. Without BS I'm at $2 per video average, not even worth the time to edit it.
It's the intrinsic problem of the social media era, in every field what creates money is the BS.
Do you remember when politicians, on any side, had to explain their ideas, discuss it and convince people? Now politics is don with tweets. Snapshot and soundbites are the only thing needed to win the vote of the people.
We live in culturally very sad times.
I hate technical books in english, but i liked your albums :) Hope that is good way to support the channel too.
I personally would love more videos like this. I photograph for as long as I remember, but there is always something new to learn.
Thanks for your input. I will try to produce more technical videos... I'll see how this go :)
Producing videos is really time consuming... at $2 for 1000 views is really not inspiring, that is why I promote my books.
Btw, do you like novels? ;)
Yes and I am thinking of yours as form of support but I am Polish so getting novels in other languages takes me lots of time and thinking.
For now I enjoy B&W stories, great images and not much text ;)
@@jerzyjablonski1432 Don't worry, I was just trying lol
Glad you enjoy the B&W stories. Still the videos I enjoyed mostly to do.
Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated.
Fantastic explanation about exposure, I can finally say that I understand what the ISO numbers mean. On the digital world, do the light meters also measure this medium grey colour or are they measuring something like a medium brown?
Thanks!
light meter* -> exposure meter
exposure meters measure a light intensity, they are indifferent to colors. It's not easy at the beginning to get used to forget colors ant thing only in term of light intensity.
In digital the problem is any camera interpret a little different the ISO and sometime underexpose a little to keep the highlights in control. I noticed my Fuji X-Pro 2 at 200 ISO is actually an 100 ISO if I use an external meter. Let say there is some flexibility in the ISO definition for digital and sometime manufacturers play with it.
Thanks, glad you appreciated the video!