 Justin S. |
how should i meter for this? Hey you guys I have a good one for you all. I have a photo I want to take of this B-E-A-utiful house lit up in all white christmas lights and it sits right in front of a small lake. The house's reflection sits perfect in the little lake. The problem I know I'm going to run into is the whole place is fenced in and I'm going to have to take the shot from the road with my 300mm zoom lense and probably my 2x teleconverter. I'll be shooting this set up with 800iso film in full manual mode. What on earth shout I meter off of the lights or the house? The lights off the lake or the ones directly off the house? The house itself or its reflection off the lake. Please help me out you guys!!! Thank you all for your help any advice is much appreciated.
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Bob Cammarata |
This is amazing!, I just ran into a similar situation this evening on the way home..(with 100 speed slide film), and I shot it metered off the lights on the house to make sure the 1 second exposure time wasn't going to "burn out" the hotspots on shore in order to get the reflections off the water to look right. (I bracketed over and under 1/2 stop to be sure.) Wish I could share the results, but the roll of film is still in the camera. :(
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Andy |
Look for trees (if there's still leaves), grass, wood, stone, etc. which is lighted by the same ambient light as the house and meter from there. Take the exposure reading. Since the house has the additional Christmas lights, I would subtract half a stop from the previous reading and bracket from there. Hope it makes sense.
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