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Equine Closeups I Have a Nikon F55 with a 28-80 Zoom I am unhappy with the tone of the photo, it's too light, the horse is a least a 1 stop darker. I have two questions If I go manual and meter close on the face, will I have to compensate? ie the horses face is not medium tone. Would a 18% grey card help here? If I get the shots I want, I may want to blow them up quite large, 8X10 or even 16X20. If I use colour slide film and bracket the shots, would this be better for enlargement?
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Jeff S. Kennedy |
Question #1 - You can use a gray card or you can determine how many stops from 18% gray the horse is and compensate. Or you could meter off of your palm and open up one stop. Question #2 - You could get good results from slide film but to get them printed you will run into more expense. I've made beautiful 16x20 prints from Kodak Portra 160NC. It's a print film and it gives great results.
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