{"id":7,"date":"2015-01-31T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2015-02-01T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:58:38","slug":"why-exposure-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Why Exposure &#8220;Triangle&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many photography teachers shy away from the phrase, \u201cExposure Triangle,\u201d and for good reason.\u00a0 The triangle itself has no meaning.\u00a0 First, there is no \u201clight\u201d leg.\u00a0 Second, it gives the viewer a mental picture of a non-existent relationship among the legs. \u00a0But since there are three aspects of exposure that can be adjusted, it is natural to just call it a triangle.\u00a0 Moreover, it is a great term to enter into Google to find out about this concept (that is, everybody uses it).<\/p>\n<p>Tony Northrup favors the use of sliders as a visual aid for these concepts.\u00a0 Here is a screen shot from one of his videos of this concept:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Northrup-Sliders.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-8 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Northrup-Sliders-300x169.png\" alt=\"Northrup Sliders\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Northrup-Sliders-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Northrup-Sliders.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This imagery has advantages.\u00a0 In particular, if one of these sliders goes up, one of the other sliders has to go down in order to obtain the proper exposure.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<a title=\"The Primary Effects of the Exposure Triangle\" href=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?page_id=50\">Primary effects of the Exposure Triangle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many photography teachers shy away from the phrase, \u201cExposure Triangle,\u201d and for good reason.\u00a0 The triangle itself has no meaning.\u00a0 First, there is no \u201clight\u201d leg.\u00a0 Second, it gives the viewer a mental picture of a non-existent relationship among the legs. \u00a0But since there are three aspects of exposure that can be adjusted, it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}