> 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 >
I would shoot at the sensor's 'natural' iso - 100, 160 or whatever, which will give you the most dynamic range. Meter for the highlights and use the histogram to make sure you're exposing as far to the right as you can. Then use LR to pull the shadows to the left if that's needed. If you do this you will ensure the maximum range without blowing out the highlights. If the shadows turn to black then you've lost less then you would if you hadn't expoised to the right. If you want detail in the shadows then you need to be very careful that you exclude extreme highlights from the frame. It's the same as shooting slides, except for the histogram trick. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
