Ian Montgomery wrote:
> so you'd find something that approached the exposure you needed, point,
> AE-Lock, recompose, shoot. It happened second-nature.
This is what I do most of the time also, with my EOS cameras, usually in
evaluative mode, in situations where some kind of selective metering is needed. I
set exposure (AE lock), then focus for the desired DOF (focus lock with the
shutter button), then the final framing (eyeball!). It's a lot like working with
the partial metering of my old FTb--with experience, I learned to look at scene
and choose the area I wanted to meter before framing the final shot. Working with
the center-weighted metering of the A1 was similar.
There's certainly a lot more I could know about this craft, and being able to
easily and quickly "shoot by numbers" instead of by intuitive guessing would
probably help me improve my work, in much the same way that expert Photoshop
users can make corrections by entering numeric values in the appropriate boxes
rather than fooling with the sliders. I have no ambition to become that
proficient in Photoshop, and prefer to see the changes as they occur as the
slider moves; and after nearly 30 years of this photography thing, I'm too
accustomed to my less-scientific approach (and too lacking in discipline) to
learn the mathematical way. This is probably a limitation, but there are so many
other techniques that I still need to master (or even dabble in) that would
greatly improve my work that it doesn't matter anyway.
In the end, they're all just tools, and we each work with the ones that suit us
best.
(I wish the power wouldn't keep going out here--we're having a substantial snow
storm as I write.)
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