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Exposure Triangle

Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 03:45:44 No.4474905 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4474920 >>4474923 >>4475011 >>4475029 >>4475030

How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder? The old masters of photography were imagining their kino...

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:22:08 No.4474920 Report

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>>4474905
They relied on their skill, experience, and vision. Something you can still do even with a digital camera.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:39:01 No.4474923 Report

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>>4474905
Trial and error. First guy realised ISO 0.5 film takes longer than a few seconds to expose. Guess and improve until you get a ballpark feel for most things. If you tape over your light meter, and expose exclusively at any one ISO (100/200/400/800) and you'll go through the same process and eventually you won't need it.
It's one step above zone metering which also relies on you to understand light values and expected EV, but goes further and expects you to understand your medium (the film).

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 05:08:09 No.4474925 Report

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>>4474923
Have you ever shot film or made a print in your life bro? What the FUCK are you talking about?

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 07:38:43 No.4474939 Report

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>>4474925
what? hes spot on

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 17:17:42 No.4475011 Report

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>>4474905
a lot of trial and error. they just shot exposure brackets and kept the best result. you wouldnt believe how much trash all the famous photogs produce

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 18:11:56 No.4475029 Report

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>>4474905
Knowing how to expose properly is the easiest part of photography

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 18:14:22 No.4475030 Report

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>>4474905
>How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder?
Take multiple images, changing ISO, aperture, exposure time, position, angle, etc.
You will have so many duplicates of the image with slight variations, but there will at least be one that looks good.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 21:25:26 No.4475087 Report

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>>4474925
You okay?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Oct 2025 08:02:04 No.4476935 Report

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>>4475029
What's the hardest? Composition?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Oct 2025 08:39:25 No.4476947 Report

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Spot on. I did this plus the sun f/11 rule back on the Nikon D40 days, when old AI lenses got no metering on camera so you're forced to do the math in your head. Eventually I got to a point where I was nailing exposure 50% of the time, or getting in the ballpark for most of the other half. I learned more about photography in those days than in all the rest combined, limitations are always fun

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