{"id":24598,"date":"2019-06-03T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24598"},"modified":"2019-06-03T23:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T04:13:55","slug":"favorite-photo-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24598","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100601_Analog_Incident_Light_Meter_5D_3138-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Gossen Luna-Pro F incident and flash light meter.\" class=\"wp-image-24599\"\/><figcaption>Gossen Luna-Pro F incident and flash light meter. Columbus Ohio. June 1, 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I needed a manual incident flash meter to use at my first wedding. This is what I bought. I also used it to meter incident ambient light, one of the most reliable ways to meter that is not influenced by the reflectivity of the subject. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An incident light meter is simple to use. Just set the ISO\/ASA, point the white dome at the most important light source, and spin the dial until the red needle is on zero. Them look at all the aperture and shutter speed combinations that will work. In this case, a shutter sped of 1\/125 second at an aperture between f\/1.4 and f\/2, all the way to a shutter speed of 1 second and an aperture between f\/16 and f\/22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a fancier digital light meter with more bells and whistles, but I still like the way this meter works. I created this image to be published in my <a href=\"https:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\">photography book in the well known Dummies series<\/a>. This is my favorite image for June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0all about this series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\">Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DPED_med1.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Photography Exposure fror Dummies\" class=\"wp-image-2050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DPED_med1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DPED_med1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed a manual incident flash meter to use at my first wedding. This is what I bought. I also used it to meter incident ambient light, one of the most reliable ways to meter that is not influenced by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24603,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions\/24603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}