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Shooting stained glass in a large church I use a Canon 20D and would like to photograph the stained glass in our church, can you suggest the camera settings that would be best for this?
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Doug Elliott |
No. Shooting the stain glass has many variables. Are you shooting in early morning, late afternoon, mid-day, night? Take your camera off "P" and put it on "M" for manual. Take a meter reading of a Kodak gray card to get your exposure. Here is the trick. If you are using an in camera meter or a handheld meter so that the light is hitting the card from the window. I mean you want your back to the stain glass and the light falling on the card. Now you have a reading bracket your shots like us old pros do when we shoot. If I am doing a window with stain glass in a church I will shoot at 1/2 stops. 1 and 1/2 stop below the meter reading and 1 and 1/2 stops above. Three of my images will be very good and very usable. One will be great. I hope this helps. Good luck shooting and keep shooting. PS: use a tripod. Doug
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Easier just to use manual, aim at the glass, activate the meter with the shutter button. adjust shutter/apeture till the +/- scale in the viewfinder says it is 1&1/2 over exposed, and try that. you can add a little or go under a little, but that's should be a close starting point.
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