Metering

Light metering is something you can do with almost any camera. What it does is measure the lighting amount in the area you are in or the object you are taking a picture of. Your camera can read light and focus on your object by pressing the shutter button half way down. In the top picture my partner held the camera close to my cheek and the camera read the lighting on my skin by holding down the shutter button half way then pulling back and taking the picture. What that was supposed to do was change the lighting shift, making the picture brighter and the computer screen way over exposed, but it did not quite come out right. The bottom picture my partner metered the computer screen only, which made the computer screen visible, not over exposed, and the rest of the picture dark. They are both different because of the lighting situations and what the camera reads or what you make it reread. Spot metering can help you in dark settings, inside or outside, when you don't necessarily want too little or too much light.