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>>121516 Understanding light is important, but:
1) Shooting manual will teach how light works much better. Shooting aperture priority, one never has to pay attention to the shutter speed, and won't notice, "Oh, hey, this sort of light is a stop less than that sort of light." To really learn how to judge light, everything needs to be done manually. Then it's just a matter of experience. Shooting in aperture priority, the one variable they are controlling is depth of field, not exposure. In shutter priority, it's motion blur, not exposure. 2) I'm never for using for using evaluative in manual mode, but it makes no sense to use something metering only part of the scene when your camera is picking the exposure. CWA could easily wind up too dark or too bright, spot will almost certainly end up too dark or too bright unless it's pointed at something approximately medium gray, like some light pavement. 3) White balance easily becomes apparent if one shoots in a variety of lighting conditions (different types of artificial light, high noon, sunset, etc.) processes his own raw files and pays attention to the numbers that come out. 4) How the file is to be processed has to be in mind at the time of exposure. One overexposes negative film and raw files (if possible) and pulls them, one exposes for exactly how one wants it to look with slide film and JPEGs, etc. Adams didn't call it "previsualization" for nothing.
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