 Doug Hucker |
Question about metering a scene for correct exposu I've been shooting for abuot a year or so and have been having a hard time with exposure. so i've been reading about it, bought a few books and read a few things online and i'm kinda gettin there I just have one problem. everywhere I read it usually says something like "i set up my tripod, and I metered the scene, that indicated a wrong exposure so I pointed my camera at the sky/ground/other object which gave me a correct exposure reading as seen in the shot below" Now heres my question. say you're shooting a sunset and you just compose and shoot going by the reading on your camera. and it comes out too dark. if you were to point the camera elsewhere.. say the ground... to get a correct exposure of the foreground of the scene and recompose and shot wouldn't that reading make the sunset itself come out too bright while making the foreground prefectly exposed?? i'm still baffled on how that works... could anyone elaborate for me? sorry for the confusion heh.
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Bob Cammarata |
Shooting into a rising or setting sun represents the most extreme of conditions, as far as accurate metering goes. Generally, if you meter a blue portion of the sky without the sun in the frame, your scene will appear as the the naked eye perceived it...(but with the foreground in silhouette).
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Doug Hucker |
but if the sky and sun are going to over expose why tdo they say to do it for a correct exposure?
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Bob Cammarata |
It could be that they were planning to exclude the distant sky from the composition...concentrating ONLY on the foreground.
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Doug Hucker |
then how woul dyou go about metering for an entire scene?
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BetterPhoto Member |
Also, say you read a sunset at a shutter speed of 30 and the sky indicates an aperture of f8 and the ground indicates an aperture of, say, f2.8. Now if you move your aperture to f5.6 then the sky will be a little brighter and there MAY be a little detail in the foreground. If you set to f4 then the sky may wash a little but there will be much more information in your foreground lending to a stronger composition. And as Howie pointed out, a ND filter will bring the two together. Also, I have an article at my website on pre-exposing which is also covered in Ansel Adams' book 'The Negative'. Thank you
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