Moab Man's 366 in 2016

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Moab Man

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Inner demon.

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Danno_RIP

Danno_RIP

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Moab Man said:
Danno,

I have been using the ExpoDisc for about four years now. I am absolutely a believer in this this product. I find it can nail the white balance in mixed lighting situations better any other tool in my opinion. While are cameras do have presets for fluorescent, tungsten, etc… those lights and their colors can always very from age, manufacturer, or a whole host of other things.

This tool also serves as an incident meter for portrait work to nail exposure.

I use to build Jeeps and this product is very much like re-gearing the axles on the Jeep. It’s not flashy doing gears like adding big tires or some cool body armor, but at its heart, gears are an absolutely valuable workhorse tool that has big benefits but no flash. That is what the ExpoDisc is to me – a no flash workhorse.

Here is a short video showing it used as an incident meter and setting WB for Canon: https://youtu.be/DHWn3MQ0YYY

The incident meter part applies to Nikons as well, but setting white balance is much easier. For Nikon you set WB to “Pre” then press until the top display of you D7200 start flashing “Pre.” Then you put the ExpoDisc over the lens, hold the camera in front of your subject while pointing the camera back to where you will be shooting, and snap the shutter. The top display will then flash “Good” if the camera got a good reading. When I take a reading I set the camera to the ISO I want and aperture priority with no exposure compensation. That way the shutter will be open as long as needed for a good sample.

Hope this all helps. Feel free to ask me if you have any other questions.
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Ordered the ExpoDisc. Should be here tomorrow. Thanks for the advice George. I appreciate it. Looking forward to putting it to use.
 
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Moab Man

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Danno said:
Ordered the ExpoDisc. Should be here tomorrow. Thanks for the advice George. I appreciate it. Looking forward to putting it to use.
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Very good! Let me know how it's going once you get it. A friend, on this forum, was not quite happy with what she was getting. Going over what she was doing we found she was making one small mistake so her reading was incorrect.
 
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Moab Man

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Danno said:
Nice photos George. I like them all, but that first one is my favorite. Just like the light. Very cool.
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Walking down the road to find a way to shoot the trees and thought the roadway just looked interesting. And with the high cost of digital film I figured I might be able to afford a shot.
 
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Dawg Pics

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There is a hilly road in the area that looks cool like that, but I had no place to stop and shoot the image. Now, I can't remember exactly where it was. I took an image of a park nearby instead for my daily shot. Maybe I can figure it out by looking at the image.
 
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All night photo shoot with BMX athletes. This young man is riding his brand new bike and just like the bike he is brand new to riding.

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