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Old 2008-10-14, 1:04pm
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Originally Posted by Tanner Studios View Post
Lets say the lights are not that bright and the meter is giving you a reading of F/4 at 1/30. You will still need to compensate for the meter by opening the aperture or increasing the time of the exposure.
And to increase the time of exposure, you're going to need a tripod (generally, some photographers manage to hand hold down to 1/15 of a second, but they are doing it all day every day). If you open up the aperture at this point, you're going to have an even shallower depth of field.

So, if you're getting a reading of F4 at 1/30 a second, you need to add more light or a tripod so that you have the room to play with your exposure compensations (unless you want camera shake or very short depth of field).
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