----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Aguila" Subject: On the issue of blown highlights!
> > 3) Also, I've been metering for highlights more, then using Lightroom to > bump up the shadows, which seems to work, but does anyone have any other > suggestions? This is, I think, the best metering strategy. Meter the brightest area of the scene that you want to hold detail and set it to Zone VIII (meter it and open up 3 stops) The shadows will fall where they fall, but usually they will fall within the range of the sensor. I spent years trying to meter for the shadows before I read in a Zone VI newsletter about Fred Picker's method. He said that rying to find the deepest shadow in a scene can be frustratingly difficult, but findong the brightest point is relatively easy. Now he was a landscape guy, not a gentrified street photographer, so for him, the brightest part of the scene was usually clouds. I would think that on the street, the brightest parts of the scene will be building walls and the like. Just remember that specular reflections are going to be blown out no matter what you do, so ignore them for metering. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
