Hi Scott
1. Don't use a flash. It wil hit the windows behind you uncle and cause
reflexses/bad pictures.
When shooting backlit scenes, measure the light refelcted form the face
(close to the fase). Or correct the exposure 1-2 stops (+1/+2). Outdoors,
measure the light, standing with your back to the sun, then turn arround and
take the picture using the same aperture/speed (this is a very old trick,
but it works most of the time).
2. I think it's flare. Unwanted refelctions in the lenses. It might be
caused by the lab, trying to make up for the incorrect exposure (if you are
talking about prints).
3. Think of your camera as a tool, like a hammer. It doesn't know where to
hit. It's your call. Cameras are (how ever smart) not thinking robots, just
computers, processing whatever information you feed it. The meter tries to
set the the exposure according to 18% refelction. Even though it has som
bulit-in correction for - let's say - back lit scenes, that i basicly what
it does. I can't really know if you are shooting a white door or a black
horse, now can it (both will come out "18% gray", using "auto picture"?
I suggesst that you shoot some film using a less sofisticated "mode". Having
practised the basics of exposure, you will feel much more comfortable using
the Picture Mode later on. You'll know when to be carefull.
Good luck
Jens
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Emne: problem with exposure w/ a well-lit window in background
Hi,
I have had great help so far with questions and figured I might as well pile
them on tonight.
1. I took (am still relatively new to photography) some pictures of a family
member in the family room here at home in the afternoon with bright sunlight
directly behind him through four windows (only a few feet behind him
actually) and the pictures turned up quite dark. I was about five feet in
front of him. I used a Pentax ZX-7 in autofocus-program mode (auto picture).
I believe that the camera under-exposed (metered) the light in the
background (parts of the window were well-lit) and left the subject (my
uncle) in the dark. Should I have overexposed the pic a few stops to
accomodate this type of picture. I only took a few and didn't think
anything of it until I got the pictures back and so what happened. What
else could I have done? I don't have bracketing.
Next,
another problem.
In the same batch of pictures, I took a picture of another family member
with the light behind me through the windows. I was about two feet in front
of the windows and my subject was about five feet in front of me. The
pictures came back with a wierd color on them and a fake looking sort of
flourescent light. Would this be backlighting and should I have covered the
camera with something to get a better exposure?
I hope this is not too much typing and information. I am a teacher and have
a tendency to over-explain and in the process, miss out on a more simplified
explanation that would probably make more sense anyway.
Oh well,
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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