Ah, I get it. Thanks for the explanation! Amita
> If you look back, you'll see that I was speaking of spot metering. on > faces when a performer is illuminated by a narrow spotlight. > Since the > dumb reflective meter thinks everything is neutral gray, a white face > will be underexposed and a very dark face will be > overexposed. You can > get away with the overexposed dark skin -- and sometimes it's > preferred > -- particularly when shooting negative film. But the > underexposed white > face will read poorly. So you simply add a stop to the spotmeter > reading. An old trick of us older folk is to use an open hand > as a gray > card in heavily backlit situations or other difficult metering tasks. > Again, if you're pale white like me, you have to add one stop to the > reading. > Paul
