As a footnote to this, flash would do a lot here to bring the foreground exposure closer to the background. I'd probably start with a full measure and then try maybe a minus half stop. You won't even see it in the results, but the results will be better. Paul
On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:01 PM, paul stenquist wrote: > As expected, the k7 did a much better job of metering. I think you're about > right with those. You have to expect the somewhat blown backgrounds if your > subjects are properly exposed. I might shoot a test or two with multipoint > metering, look at the histo, then adjust exposure comp if necessary. That's > pretty much the way I approach every metering situation these days. > Paul > On Aug 28, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
