Re: OT: seeking advice on shooting a live music show in a bar.

[Pieter Nagel]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Hern�n Mouro wrote:

> Pieter Nagel wrote:
> 
> > 2) Spot meter. Read the light of the musicians skin...

> 2a) Does this apply to portraits in general?

I would say so - the people are the focus of the shot - unless your
goal is to get all the detail of the black stitching in their dark
clothes and don't care that the faces are overexposed to the heavens.

> 2b) So I measure the light of the musicians skin and just shoot? Is skin
> lighter
> than middle grey?

My gut feel goes with Aaron's, that caucasian skin is roughly one
stop brighter than middle grey.

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