On Mar 23, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/2011/03/o-d-johnson.html > > Thanks a bunch guys. For speedy and constructive comments. > Let me reply to the most important first. O. D. is my colleague, not my > college. > > What I do for metering? Errrh. Does chimp count as metering ;-) > What I do, is to chimp with histogram on. > > I'll most likely by a proper meter soon, but for the time being I must > settle with the histogram. There so many other important tools I need. > But I do need to be better at using the histogram. I've lost a few > shots because I didn't pay enough attention to the exposure. With > light background I'm usually OK, but I tend to misread the histogram, > when I'm using the black background.
I don't think you can get a better meter than the histogram. But, you got to know how to use it. If you've got challenging lighting, like someone with a blowout white background: Take a throwaway shot that just has what you care about the exposure of in the frame, it doesn't even need to be in focus. That way the only thing the histogram will be metering is what matters. Or do several of these on various portions of the frame. Of course, you can always bracket in tough lighting situations. This is, of course, why I shoot so many frames. I try to take advantage of these features of digital photography to make sure I get the shot. For that matter, when I'm shooting film sometimes I use my DSLR as a light meter. > > In the last one, I had to settle with this odd crop. At least for the > time being. The reason is that I had the light stand in the frame. > Stupid mistake. I could clone it out, but didn't have time to do it > properly. > > -- > MaritimTim > > http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
