Middle gray is easy. Middle red always gives me a hard time. Middle green is not bad, but middle blue is almost as hard as middle red. :) Guess I need to get a point & shoot camera. Anybody want to buy a Speed Graphic?
Ciao, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:55 AM Subject: Re: Metering > Like I said ..."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." > > And you're right - I should have said subject and not scene. > > "J. C. O'Connell" wrote: > > > You stated: "measure the brightest part of the scene and open up three > > stops." > > not me. This method is flawed. As far as backlighting goes this method > > made no mention of metering on the subject. You stated just meter the > > brightest > > part of the scene and open up 3 stops. Nothing to do with the subject at > > all. > > > The problem is there are MANY shades of grey and picking the correct > > one by eye is not always easy especially if the scenes in color. > > Indidence metering is much simpler, just point the incidence dome > > in the direction of the light falling on the subject. When backlighting > > occurs you measure the light falling on the side of the subject being > > photgraphed. > > JCO > > ============================================================================ > > = > > > "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 . - 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 .
