Light Meter

Light Meters can be very useful tools for a photographer as a camera can not measure a studio flash as it is too quick for the camera to measure however the light meter is able to measure it.

They can also be used outside because the light meters have different modes:

ambient lighting
flash with cord
wireless flash

In this project we will be using them to measure the ambient light outside because the cameras do not have inbuilt light meters.


Incident and Reflective readings

There are two different ways of measuring the light: incident and reflective.

An incident light reading is taken of the light that falls directly onto the subject, this light meter reading is taken by using the lumisphere on the light meter and aiming the light meter towards the camera

Reflected readings are measuring the light that is reflected towards the camera and are taken by not using the lumisphere and aiming the light meter towards the subject.