Practice question · True or false
A reflected-light meter is unaffected by how reflective the subject is.
Hints
- Ask which of the two metering methods this describes.
- Reflectance is precisely what a reflected reading cannot separate from illumination.
Show the answer
False
Why
False: that describes the incident meter, which reads the light falling on the subject through a diffusing dome. A reflected reading confounds illumination with reflectance, which is exactly why it renders snow grey and coal grey and can tell you nothing about which it was looking at.
Practise Exposure and Metering
The app has 6 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Photography I is free to start.
More questions on Exposure and Metering
- Why does a reflected-light meter under-expose a snow field? Select every statement that is part of the reason.
- Complete the vocabulary of exposure measurement.
- Arrange these metering methods from the widest area measured to the narrowest.
- A flash is moved from 2 metres to 4 metres from its subject. How many stops of light are lost?
- Sunny 16 at ISO 100 gives f/16 at 1/125. Loading ISO 200 film instead, what shutter denominator does the rule…
- An incident-light meter measures illumination falling onto a subject rather than light bouncing off it. What…
- Sort each scene by what a straight reflected-light reading does to it.