P3D Re: The answer to Metering

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> I have decided to shoot holiday lighting "by committee" using an
> entourage of associates and taking the mean average of all data
> collected to determine exposure. For a scene 200 yards away (lets say
> across a river and including the water, a 50 ft tree, and a cluster of
> decorated buildings with various lighting schemes) I would send one
> person to each building with a meter and cell phone, a snorkler or
> boater on the water to meter the reflections,
> and I would meter the foreground to include the rivers edge and some
> foliage. All elements of the photo are important to me. Well, the calls
> are in, the data collected, the computations completed and the exposure
> decision has been
> successfully determined.....BRACKET.

This is the way to use a spot-meter when one doesn't
actually have one?  

:-)

Mike K.


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