Activity 3

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Find two images that have been shot into the light or included the light source. Explain how the photographer may have gone about taking a light meter reading for these photographs.

 These two images have obviously been shot into the light with the light meter. You can tell that the subject got shot into different types of brightness with the light. One with the subject bright and the background dimmed to bring the focus to the subject more, and then the one with the subject with a brighter light and the background lighter as well. It seems as if the photographer is testing the light meter to see the different types of results they can get with mixing lighter and dimmer pictures and then light on top of light pictures. I think the subject being bright and the background dim is better because having both things being bright throws the picture off, and can get distracting. You can tell they were testing the reflection from the face as well to see how bright

they could get it.