Ken Durling wrote:
> However, since there was so much sky in the shot, IIRC I may
> have exposure compensated down a 1/2 stop or so,
Ah, Ken, you went the wrong way (unless of course you wanted the sky to be
properly exposed rather than the elk). In unusually bright conditions the meter
will underexpose, since it wants to see everything as having an average
reflectance. As a result, it sets the AE to expose the sky (in this instance) as
if it were a lawn, which will make everything too dark. To come back to the snow
example (since it's the easiest to understand)--if you want your snow to look
white rather than grey or blue, you need to increase exposure over what your
meter says, not reduce it.
Looking at the photos though, I can see why you might have wanted to knock the
exposure down a bit, to keep some color in the sky.
> the Elk with Provia, and I do want to try exposing for the darker
> areas on their bodies, although obviously I won't get the same sky.
You would probably need to use a graduated ND filter to get both. But looking at
Tule1b, it doesn't appear from the scan to have any real exposure problems. As
you probably know, getting good enlargements from slides can be difficult, at
least if you don't want to spend a fortune on them. I have slides that are quite
reasonably exposed but that did not print well at all. My guess is that the
trick to getting good prints from slides (other than getting a hi-rez scan and
printing on a LightJet 5000) is to overexpose them slightly, to try and even out
the contrast, if you know that you'll want prints from them. It might also help
to use a slide film with a bit lower contrast, like Astia/Sensia II 100. But if
enlargements are your goal, negative film is the way to go (which is why I've
recently switched to negs--again). Even if you're shooting for print, slides
don't have the big advantage over negs they once did, since so much prepress is
done digitally these days. A digital file is a digital file, regardless of
whether the original is a transparency or a neg.
fcc
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