Exposure meters/light meter

A light meter is used to measure the amount of light in photography. Photographers use this to determine the correct exposure for a photograph.
Ambient light is the light that exists in a scene. Also referred to as “natural light” or “existing light,” ambient light can be the found light inside a home, a restaurant or concert hall, or a bright, sunny day, a deep foggy day, a city at night...in other words, any kind of pre-existing light. This is found light, not additional light that you, the photographer, might choose to add, such as flash. When photographing a scene that is lit with any kind of ambient light, you need to use a light meter to determine exposure. 
The most common exposure method is via your camera’s built-in exposure meter. When shooting with a compact camera, determining exposure and setting the camera’s aperture, shutter speed and (in some cases) ISO happens automatically. With DSLRs, this also can happen when the camera is in Program or “green” mode, but you have plenty of other exposure mode options. You can have more control over exposure by choosing Aperture-Preferred, Shutter-Preferred, or Manual exposure modes. A less-common approach is to use a handheld meter, which measures light and provides exposure setting guidance.

incident light measures the light falling on your subject and how light or dark the subject is has no affect on the exposure reading.

Reflected light measures the light reflecting off your subject, and the color and value (how dark of light your subject is) affects your reading, requiring evaluation and experience to accurately apply this information.

In terms of speed, incident is the faster way to get an accurate, ready-to-shoot exposure of a subject in the same light or shade in which you stand. Reflected readings are very useful when your subject is in shade and you are not, or vice versa - but again, the reading you take with reflected can only be "ready-to-shoot" if you are indeed pointing at something that is "middle gray" in value.

The first time you use an incident meter is one of those "a-ha!" moments. Once you take a reading with the lumisphere, set the camera to same and find that your exposure is right on, we bet you will wonder how you ever lived without it!

Incident metering tells you about the light you are controlling. The Sekonic Litemaster Pro L-478 Series light meters' Lumisphere (hemisphere receptor) is designed to read all of the illumination that falls on it, and the subject, including the key light, line light, hair light, eye lights, etc. Besides taking nearly foolproof exposure readings, this enables you to set up and light a scene before the principal talent arrives, saving time and adding to your presentation as a professional. You can also “walk the set” to measure the evenness of the illumination and perfectly light green screens.

The L-478 Series offers the convenience of a retractable Lumisphere. Retract the Lumisphere to read individual light sources to adjust them to the desired ratio, or read the flat subject. Extend it to take an exposure reading for 3-dimensional subject position.

Men's Watch

These are the photographs from my men's jewellery shoot. I did not really have much men's jewellery to photograph but i thought this would be a good one, as it is very interesting. I like the contrast of the colours between the gold, black and the white/cream background.  I tried to photograph the watch from different angels to give different effects and to see how it makes the image feel and how this effects the image outcome. 

These are a few examples of photos I have taken and edited slightly.

I do like these photographs but the gold tone does appear a bit yellow and doesn't look as nice as it could have been. I think that when I edit the other photographs I am going to try and get rid of the yellow tones. 

I like this one loads but I dont like how you can see the back of the watch that spoils. 

Men's Causal Street Fashion Shoot.

These are my contact prints from the men's street fashion shoot, in this shoot i tried to experiments with different lights, such as soft lighting and really harsh and bright lights, i also used hard light witch I did not feel it was very effected for this type of shoot I am doing and does on work very well with the fashion theme in my case. 

I did not plan my shoot very well when it came to outfits and ideas so I am planning on re-shooting a better idea and trying to be more created this time, with more of a variety of clothing/outfits as well as different styles such as joggers and trainers, workout stuff, and even maybe swimwear and pj's. 

I do think that i would really benefit from doing an extra shoot because i dont think that i have a very wide range of photographs and i know i could do a lot better and be more created with my shoot.  

Some of my Final Photographs 

This is one of my images that I have edited, I have always liked black and white images, they always add the mysterious and texture to your images in my opinion. I thought that is I cropped this image as well I could use this to go at the side of a paragraph, because it is a really natural looking pose. I used a soft box and background lights to lighten this image. The clothing is really smooth but the background like did come across a little harsh sometimes and too bright. 

I personally think that the background light is very effective in this image because its darker at the top and the bottom and light in the middle which brings your attention to the phones and the watch, so i could also talk about the accessories. 

Again I was playing with the black and white image and decided to colour pop the watch just in case I want to talk about the accessories. I really enjoy colour popping it always looks really interesting and never fails to grab your attention.  I was using a soft box to take this photograph and Its gives this really soft smooth looks to clothing and skin. 

In this image I used a light box and background lights, I tried not to over edit my images and keep them looking natural. I do think that the background lights are a bit bright and over powering and that I maybe should have adjusted them a little bit before shooting. 

In this photograph I again tried to experiments with colour popping again, but I used a piece of clothing this times, which is a lot more natural and not as in your face as the watch it is still effective but it a more like a water colour, soft and less bright. 

I tried to get some closer photographs of the clothing instead of full body photographs so that i could talk about different things in my magazine, also when I was doing my research I saw a lot of images like this on internet shopping. Again this was taken with a soft box and background lights to, brighten it all up so the clothing is clear. 

Again I tried to take more focused shots.