 Cindy |
sun facing camera I want to take a picture of a barn with the sun facing the camera. I took a few already but the barn was really dark. You can hardly make out what it is. How would I take a meter reading? Would I take it in the shaded area facing the camera or would I take it from the camera into the light?
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John A. Lind |
Cindy, If you are using a "reflected light" meter, the type built into cameras, you would do neither. Your most accurate reading using a meter of this type would likely be making one in the shaded area, but facing the barn, not the camera position. By doing it in the shade, you are metering the shaded side of the barn, and not the bright sky (or other background) behind it. Do expect the sky above and around the barn . . . and anything else that's directly illuminated by the sun that's in the photograph . . . to be washed out when the shaded side of the barn is properly exposed (no longer "really dark"). One of the two methods you described . . . in the shaded area facing the camera . . . is called "incident" light metering. It requires using a white transluscent diffuser over the sensor of a hand held meter . . . either built in that can be flipped or slid over the sensor, or a separate accessory that snaps onto the meter (over the sensor). Most look like a small white dome. If you are using a hand-held meter and don't have this kind of diffuser for it, or are using the one built into the camera, don't worry about this method. Make a reflected reading with what you have as desribed above . . . in the shaded area facing the barn. -- John Lind
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Cindy |
John, Thank you for the info. Your a great help. Cindy....
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