No you're not. You don't meter the sun, and if the subject is backlit, it doesn't matter. You're taking a reading of the subject which is unaffected by the back lighting.
If, as a photographer, you can't recognize a middle grey tone, you should be using a P&S and sign up for a photography class. "J. C. O'Connell" wrote: > > > One option, and perhaps the simplest, > > is to measure the brightest part of the scene and open up three stops. > > Bada-Bing! a great exposure, simply and without fuss. > > Thats not always going to work. What happens if the sun is in > the pic, or if the subject is back lit? Your going to end up > with underexposures. > > > Or, for most > > scenes, just point the meter at a middle grey tone (rock, grass, your > > jeans - whatever), and there you have it, another great exposure. > > This is the real problem with spot meters , its not easy to > decide by eye what is "middle gray, especially in a color ful scene. > -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
