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Course 027 · Lesson 05

Exposing the Perfect Plate: Light Metering and Composition in Food Photography

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Calibrating Your Camera Exposure Meter

027.5 Lesson 05 of 08 3 quiz questions 1 assignment

Even calibrated cameras have a meter bias — a systematic tendency to over- or under-expose in certain conditions. Food photographers typically encounter this bias most acutely when photographing pale dishes on white surfaces: the meter sees an overall bright scene and underexposes it, producing a grey-cast result that makes the food look unappetising. The solution is not to correct this in post-processing — it is to calibrate your understanding of your camera's meter bias so that you anticipate and correct it at the time of capture.

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