Can’t thank you enough for this gem of a tutorial.

The exanples really helps. I watched multiple videos previously on Metering mode but this one is the best. Thank you so much :)

Manual mode and spot metering work very well for everything I shoot... Wildlife, Architecture and Landscapes. 99% of my photography is shot using this method. Once you set it forget it same light same exposure...nothing changes. But in auto and any other metering mode camera males all changes. Evaluative metering is good for a percentage of everyday personal shooting, but there are limitations. In aperture value mode, you choose the Fstop and the camera automatically selects the shutter speed. Exposure compensation adjustments are made with the command dial on the back of Canon cameras to make the image lighter or darker than suggested by the camera. My preset C3 is shutter priority evaluative and - 2/3 of a stop exposure compensation for bright sun lit photos. On the other hand an overcast day with flat lighting evaluative metering works fine, sometimes with little to no compensation required. This is a very reliable and efficient mode in many cases, but when your subjects are moving around or there is a lot of tonal values, significant exposure errors can occur. Incorrect exposures in AUTO modes occur when your subject moves in front of backgrounds of varying lightness or darkness. The camera will vary the exposure depending on the background, and this can lead to exposures way off the mark. For example, using evaluative metering, a bird on the ground may be exposed perfectly in its surroundings, however, when that same bird suddenly flies into the sky, it may be rendered nearly a silhouette, because the bright sky fools the metering system into underexposure. We must be a bit smarter in these situations. Even zooming your lens can change the exposure, even when the light is not changing. By using exposure lock * hold when using any automatic camera modes or shooting manually and spot metering is two useful camera settings to control your exposure. Lets say you have a dark bison standing in a grassy meadow and you have a zoom lens on your camera. At the wider setting the dark toned bison is a relatively small percentage of the scene and evaluative metering may be right on, however if you zoom way in on just the bison, now the camera is seeing a completely different scene, and metering very differently. Now the bison is big in the frame, the meter reads a lot of dark tones from the bison, and gets fooled into overexposing the bison. The light did not change as I zoomed, but the in camera meter read the exposure differently as the zoom added or subtracted tonal values. To avoid these potential pitfalls, use manual mode in conjunction with the in camera spot meter. Spot meters do one thing converts all it reads to a midtown value. Black with details become grey(adding light, 2.5 stops). White with details become grey (subtracting light, 2.5 stops). Complete black no detail plus 3 stops. Complete white no details minus 3 stops. All other metering modes have predetermined algorithms in them so they react in their own way. With the camera making all decisions on exposure. Taking control from the photographer.

'Trevor' has never look better. He's so patient too. Standing still & cooperating with you.

Thank you! Hands down one the best explanations (and examples) of the different metering modes in various situations. Exactly what I was looking for!

Great video. Very informative. Also, great shirt!

Thanks for this video. I love seeing the numbers, examples, and explanation. Great job!

Love your videos! You’re a brilliant teacher!

Thank you again a very helpful video, just what I needed to understand. I enjoy your videos very much.

Great Video. Easy to understand. Thank you and Travor!

Thank you for the video examples!! Now I understand 🙏

This makes so much sense now!!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for taking the time and effort to post such an informative video. It certainly helped me to understand the different metering modes so much more clearly!

Great, easy to understand ! Thank you so much.

Spot on. Enjoyed your explanation and demonstrations of this subject.

Great tutorial on metering modes...AN easy-to understand video..THANKS!

This is so well explained. Thank you!

Thanks. I did learn something and I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel.

Trevor seems so patient! Thanks for yet another great article Charles. Cool T shirt 👍

Thanks mate. Brilliant presentation

Excellent !! Thanks you Charles !

Well presented. Thank you

Great explanation and examples.

Perfect info on the metering, thanks a lot charles

Love Trevor - wonderful way to wake me up to metering!😃

great info ... thank you from NYC

Very informative, thank you very much.

Thank you, very clear and well explained

Thank you very much for this well explained and well illustrated video!

very good examples and well explained.

I'm busy with a photography course and this has really helped a lot! Clear, to the point. Thanks!

The best video on metering I have watched so far!

This was great. I’m a novice photographer and I need things simple and repetitive, thank you!

It is one of the best videos i have seen till now on metering. Many thanks!!! Looking forward for more such videos.

This was really helpful I learned something today really appreciated Charles

Thanks a lot Charles for such a nice explanation of different matrix systems

Thousand thanks for your extremely good explanation and pedagogic examples ! You are a good teacher !😄

I'm so thrilled with this video! Starting with Trevor was brilliant. I "knew" about when to use the 3 modes in general purposes, but had no idea about how gray scale affects everything. The fact that you gave us real, out-in-the-world examples was the best thing I've encountered. Bless you for making it so easy to comprehend. 5 stars.

Brilliant. Awesome. Amazing tutorial made easy to understand. Loved 😍 it

Brilliant well done best explained video on the internet by far. Thanks.

Thank you so much Charles! Awesome explanation - it really cemented my understanding of the 3 metering modes. Perfect!

Very nicely explained with lot of example.

Thank you, very useful one

This is the best video about camera meeting I ever watched. Thank you!!!!!

The best metering explanation 👌

Thanks that was really helpful. 👍

Thanks a lot! This is the best explanation of camera metering modes I've ever seen. In fact, all your videos are very helpful!

Really excellent explanation, thank you

Very interesting charles will give this ago as i learn how to use my camera ever tutorial is a big help thank you.

This is a very informative video, thank you very much 🙏🙏

Many thanks for this❤

Thank you, very well explained. You've been very helpful sir.

thank you, sir - for explaining this topic with ease.

Your way of explaining the topic is too good. I am looking forward for more. Thank you for your initiative and tutorials.

Very well presented video. Clear differences can be very apparent when concentrating on one subject, which you've done here. Very helpful indeed.

Thank you so much. I really do understand now

Excellent video

This is an absolutely fantastic explanation of a subject that kept me guessing, but now I'm much more confident in choosing the best mode. Charles, many thanks and much appreciated

This is well explained. Now I am fully understanding the concept 😊. Thank you !

Thank you very much!!!!

very well done Charles now I know how to meter and why. Thanks so much fr Canada . P.S. I like the T-shirt also

Thank you very much. Your explanation is very easy and visible to understand . The video clip helps me to see clearly the difference among those modes.

Thank you!

Thank you 😊

Excellent!

Very good explanation

loving your videos

Good explanation sir thank you

super helpful

amazing video you are the best

Very good information

Thank you, sir! I'm starting to learn about photography two weeks ago and this is so helpful xD

A very informative video 👍

Excellent

Thanks!

Ty

I also agree with previous comment: Your model Trevor has the patience of Job! :)

Hi Charles, sorry for too many comments recently; I am going through your advice videos and trying it all out on my own Z6 camera. I played with Center Weighted on a high contrast indoor scene with light and dark areas. When I focused on light vs dark areas, it did not change the meter reading. So I think Center Weighted doesn't seem to consider the point of focus in its metering. I will try more experiments, but just wanted to share it with you. Thanks!

A couple of years ago, I decided to start shooting FULL manual. That is ... setting Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO manually. No more Auto-ISO, no more Exposure Compensation, and no more metering modes. My reasoning was that if the camera could reliably adjust the exposure in any of the auto (or semi-auto) modes (priority modes or full auto), there would be no reason for the Exposure Compensation control to exist. So ... if we are always going to be constantly tweaking the exposure to actually get it right, why not just set it directly instead of indirectly via Exp Comp. In the process, I have learned more about my camera and more about how to actually exposure for a particular subject.

So Nice explained- Thank Charles Find it a bit tricky to handle with my forrest-walk-around shooting. I’ll work on with it. I have up til 39 focuspoints. What Will be your recommendation in the landscape situations? Thanks mate 👈🙏 Lars

Excellent explanation. What mode is advise for the portrait and group photos?

i come from DSLR world with the nikon D750 and i completly understand this video (thank you by the way because it solved many questions i asked myself when shooting). But my question is now with the new world order of mirrorless and EVF this is something that can be easy fixed with exposure compensation without the need to take a test shot photo. Just look through the EVF and you can see exactly what you will get and correct the exposure accordly. Am i right ? because it is one main reason i want to switch to mirrorless (with IBIS and touch screen).Thanks for the video who was really clear.

Hi Charles, darn, you like those words...matrix /center-weighted and spot. Just one recommendation, just my opinion: your 'Trevor' section would have been more educational and would've summarized your talk if put at the end of the video. Thanks, and cheers mate

We mst thank trevor too!

Hi Charles, Nikon Z comes with setting "B3" for Center Weighted Metering, where we can pick 12mm or AVG options. I don't understand what these two options do, and how they affect the Center metering. Can you please guide me?

i love how everybody misunderstood what mean matrix/evalutive and confuse it with a average metering

good video. don't understand what it ment tho. aside from i should only use matrix with compensation expsoure 😆

Congrats for this video! What about if I'm in full manual mode (I control ISO, shutter speed and aperture)? I guess it doesn't matter which light metering mode you choose (spot, evaluative etc...). Am I right? I've done some tests, and the metering mode makes no difference when I'm in full manual.

Does this work the same in video work on a DSLR like gh5.?

Manual exposure and read the histogram.

Hi Charles video on nikon nx saying private video whats up fr Canada

They could be brown, they could be blue, they could be purple flowers🎵 thinking about Mika here.

Oh wow, finally the penny has dropped. Thank you so much.

for me this shows the failure of Aperture Priority - and why a person should pay attention to the Histogram prior to taking the photo - this would only be a proper review of the metering modes with the very same SS/F-STOP/ISO settings - with each metering mode, as Aperture Priority is adjusting your ss regardless of the metering mode

If Trevor was black, his name wouldn’t be Trevor.

Excellent!

Thank you!

Excellent

Thanks!