Experimenting with exposure

In photography exposure is a term that refers to the light that reaches the film and makes an image. To create a rich photo with realistic tones, dark and detailed shadows, and bright delicate  highlights, you need to properly expose your film. This involves understand three main things: how shutter speed and aperture work together to control the amount of light allowed to reach the film, the ISO rating of your film (speed), how to meter the light and set the camera control accordingly. Personal judgement is important even if your camera can set the exposure automatically because equipment is set for "average" conditions, and usually scenes don't have "average" conditions. One of the best cures for exposure issues is experience. Even nice light meters and cameras with exposure strategy can't replace the confidence experience can give you. Before making an exposure take a moment to visualize how you want your final print to look. You can decide in the tonal value of the important area in your final photo. You can chose how light or dark a specific area will appear by adjusting the exposure by the meter reading. Less exposure will make an average dark, darker than middle gray. For example if you wanted a very dark or black subject to appear rich and dark with complete texture expose it two stops less than what the meter reads. Changing the exposure affects all the values in the print no just the tones you meter. I hope everyone finds this helpful! It's short but detailed. If you have any question or request feel free to comment!