At 03:44 PM 1/23/1999 EST, you wrote:
>Joel writes:
>
>> (I also don't understand why people use hand held spot meters to take a
>> highlight reading and a shadow reading and average them. This seems
like a
>> Hail Mary approach to exposure.)
>
>Easy answer. How many scenes have equal amounts of brightness and shadows.
>In another words, is the % balanced to the right and left of mid-tone? If it
>isn't balanced, an averaging meter is going to be off. An average of a spot
>reading of the brightest highlight in which one wants detail and the darkest
>shadow in which one wants detail is a thinking man's (and woman's)
approach to
>averaging. It offer a pretty high percentage of being technically correct.
>Artistically correct depends on which tones you want to emphasis to be on:
>shadow or highlights. One than biases the averaged reading, most easily by
>adding an intermediate spot reading to the mix.
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
>
Hi Gary,
I think calling it "a thinking man's ... approach to averaging" is a good
way to put it. My money goes on that "intermediate spot reading." I guess
I start looking to see where the highlight values are and then where the
intermediate (i.e., medium, Zone V) ones will fall, decide if that's what I
want or not and adjust accordingly, and let the shadows go where they must.
(Raised on slide film ...)
Joel
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