P3D Re: The answer to Metering

[Dan Wenz <djwenz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Karen Obusek wrote:

> 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.

Or borrow my meter - beside the usual field of view, it has a spot
capability to reduce the field to either 15 or 7 degrees - never had
a problem with use of the meter in the 30 years I've owned it. Use my hand
as a substitute (washed and not too tan of course) for folks in the
distance if too lazy to use the spot attachment. Naturally, your
experience may vary from mine, but that's what make the world such an
interesting place :-)


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