Re: Metering sunsets

[Paul Stenquist]

It's much more simple than that. As I said before, pick out the area of 
the sky that you want to record as approximately the same density as 
18% gray. Meter that and shoot. I metered this shot a couple of inches 
(in the print) to the right of the sun going down. That's all you have 
to do if a great sky is your object.
Paul
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2717880
On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Ryan Lee wrote:

How about metering foreground and using ND grads?
If not it's the solution is pretty simple- take readings from the 
clouds,
the sky, foreground.. even a gray card. Then review your exposures on 
the
d2h (doh! ;-)). Then go with what works with the 6x7.

Cheers,
Ry
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Subject: Metering sunsets

          Hi Gang.
The next few days look like they wil be the same weather wize,just a 
few
high, light
clouds with a
sunset around 7:30 est.
I will be at the farm tomorrow for my daughters lesson and will stay 
until
sunset to catch
the nice
reddish/orange light bouncing off the clouds.Its absolutley gorgous.
Whats the better way to meter this. I'll use 6x7 and d2h for this.
Us ing the minolta spot meter,should i meter off the relection in the
clouds or the
blueish sky around it.
At this time the sunn is down and just the light reflection visible.
Film will be 100 Reala and i'll probable shoot the d2h a bit faster 
as i
want to try and
get sillouette of the
ducks landing in the pond against the sky.
It llooked really cool Monday but no spot meter and no  digital with 
me. I
shot a few 6x7
with the on
board meter.
Dave