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Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com.
And this is three shots or less where I try to get the perfect exposure in three shots
or less.
So here's the situation we're in this time.
Now, a lot of you guys requested to see low light photos for three shots or less.
Now that's exactly what we're going to do right here.
We're in a hallway.
There's no window light and we have to build the proper exposure in three shots or less.
I'm using the Nikon D3300 with the 18-55 kit lens.
We have Todd standing here between two lights or just behind them and I'm going to try and
get the perfect exposure right now.
So this time, what I want to do is I want the meter to tell me the proper exposure.
So I'm going to set it to 12800 ISO and let the meter tell me what the right exposure
is this time.
So here we go.
Going to dial my exposure and let's go.
I'm at 12800 and it's f/4 and it's three twentieth of a second.
It's telling me that's the right exposure.
So let's take a picture here.
Take a look.
And you know what, the exposure looks pretty darn good.
The meter did a great job in this situation, because it's not being thrown off.
But there is an issue.
If you zoom in or you just look at this image, it's raining grain.
It is so noisy and grainy.
So what I want to do is build the proper exposure in the next two shots to bring the grain down
even with this basic set up.
I'm going to go from 12800 and I'm going to drop it three stops, to 6400, to 3200, to
1600.
Now, let's take the picture and see what happens right there.
And let's take a look.
Now if anybody out there said that, oh, Jared, you dropped the ISO three stops and you didn't
change anything else and you knew it would be dark, well, you're absolutely right.
The image is extra dark, but let's think about this.
How do we get the perfect exposure now in just one shot?
Well, this is simple.
We had the right exposure, but with too much grain at 12,800.
So we drop the ISO by three stops.
Well, the other thing we can drop now by three stops is the shutter speed, because we knew
the exposure was right, three stops higher.
So because we dropped the ISO three stops, let's just drop the shutter speed three stops.
We're at 1/320th of a second.
We'll have that to 1/160.
We'll have that again to 1/80th of a second and we'll have again to 1/40th.
Now that's not too slow for me to hand-hold at 18 millimeters.
So let's see the shot.
Boom.
Let's take a look.
And there you have it.
You see that, we got the perfect exposure in only three shots there and what we focused
on is we had the right exposure, but with way too much noise in this basic DSLR and
I just showed you with this kit set up, in three shots, how to drop it down and get the
perfect exposure.
I'm very happy with how that turned out and I want to thank you guys for requesting low
light style photos for this, but if you want to request a different situation or scenario,
go ahead and leave a comment down below and maybe we will be shooting yours next.
So that's it.
Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com.
See you.