On Aug 28, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > I'm going to plung into this project for the next year. I want to photograph > people under the el tracks downtown. > > I would like to know how folks might meter for this project.
I might put the camera on spot metering and use that to set the exposure on the subject that I want to shoot, but I'd probably put the camera in manual, press the green button, chimp and adjust. At first, it'll take a long time, but pretty soon you'll look at it and say "cloudy day, subject is under the tracks, background is in shade...", and know what setting to use. John's suggestions seem spot on. The alternative is to shoot anytime that there isn't direct sunlight, or to find spots where your background is in shadows. I'd look for spots where the lighting works the best, or the least bad. This may well mean shooting on a monopod late in the afternoon. > > The 1st 3 photos were taken with the K20D last year, and from the sax player > on those photos were taken with the K7 this year. All photos were at ISO > 1600 except the sax player, which was 800. You can see I've some challanges > with light and shadow. > > All 7 photos here are *as shot* except for correction to level allignment for > the K20D shots. > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/trackstest > > Big thanks, Christine > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
