P3D Re: Trust your meter?[D[D

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>

>My serious photography (as contrasted to people at science-fiction
>conventions and cats at home in stereo) involves California native
>plants in the wild. Quite often there are some flowers and branches >and leaves
in the sun, and a fair amount of soil in deep shadow >because of the
afore-mentioned branches and leaves. My SLR (a >Minolta Maxxum 700si, with a
very slick meter) averages the  dark >soil and the sunlit branches and flowers,
decides it's pretty dark, >gives lots of exposure, and the flowers are washed
out. With the >sunny 16 rule, the soil is dark and the flowers are brilliant.


This is a situation where the "exposure lock" feature, found on some automatic
cameras, is useful.  You zoom in on the part of the contrasty scene you want
exposed ideally, lock the exposure, then zoom out and frame the scene as you
desire.  The exposure will then be correct for the flower, and the shadows will
fall where they may.

An incident reading on the flower would also give you the desired exposure; it
sounds like you're not shooting them from 200-yards away. :-)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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