From: "Christine Aguila"
I'm going to plung into this project for the next year. I want to photograph
people under the el tracks downtown.
I would like to know how folks might meter for this project.
The 1st 3 photos were taken with the K20D last year, and from the sax player
on those photos were taken with the K7 this year. All photos were at ISO
1600 except the sax player, which was 800. You can see I've some challanges
with light and shadow.
All 7 photos here are *as shot* except for correction to level allignment
for the K20D shots.
http://www.caguila.com/caguila/trackstest
Big thanks, Christine
From my point of view, you don't have a metering problem. You *may*
have a lighting problem depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
Looks to me like you need to add light in your shadow areas to
accomplish what I think you're trying to do.
I'd use a cheap radio slave & a Vivitar 285HV strobe held off camera (or
on a stand) to provide fill light. I can also do it with my dedicated
Pentax flashes, but it takes more work because I have to think about it
a lot harder to get them to do what I want them to do.
The 285 has a sensor mounted on the front and can automatically light
the subject for a given exposure. If you set your camera at ISO 200 and
set the 285 to the yellow band, it provides light to expose the subject
at F/4. Your shutter speed then controls how much ambient light is
combined with flash.
For the first one I'd have set the camera to ISO 200, set the 285's
sensor to the yellow band, ignore the dial on the side of the 285, and
pulled the flash head back for wide. I'd install the optional WA
diffuser in the 285 if you can find one. Shoot manual at f/4 & 1/60 -
bracketing 1/30 and 1/125.
And, there you have a four paragraph summation of my summer semester
course in small format.
FWIW - at ISO 200 Yellow = F/4, Red = F/8, Cyan = F/11 and Magenta = F/16
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