90% of my work is executive and personal portraiture. In those instances, I simply walk up to the subject, pull the dome over the Gossen Luna Pro's sensor, hold the meter next to the subject's face (dome pointed directly at the main light source) and meter. When not doing portraiture, I do single flowers I can walk up to, or products on a table under a light tent like watches or rare books; small items which I can incident meter if close and spot meter (if I'm in a Botanica or some such) if not. I never wonder which method to use in those instances, my distance from (or access to) the subject being the only criterion. If I'm shooting a landscape, (why?), I usually meter the foreground with the camera's spot meter if there is more than 2 stops difference between the background and foreground; otherwise I'm familiar enough with the camera's evaluative metering to trust it to accurately meter landscapes. *But then, my methods work for me because I only shoot print film, never slides. For those who restrict their photography to slides, the differing techniques discussed here have greater meaning. **The thread has studiously ignored flash metering, (an easy assumption to make, since no one has mentioned flash or flash metering), which leads to this observation: the only way to accurately meter when using flash is to hold a flash/color meter next to or near the item or subject.
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