Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kevin wrote: >I think it was Ted who brought up that old piece of wisdom of metering for >the highlights (when shooting slide film) and letting everything else fall >where it may. I've heard this before but confess that I don't know that I >always understand what that really means. Here's and example. > >Tonight I was shooting over by my favorite broken down pier. There's a >rotted out metal row boat I placed in the foreground, water in the mid to >background, and rotted piers in the background (nice reflections in the mid >ground). So the frame from bottom to top was: boat resting in the mud, >water (seen through the boat as well), reflections, and pylons. The boat >spot metered at about EV 7, the water around 10 (late in the day with heavy >overcast so the color was steel gray), the pylons and reflections around 7 >or 8. I was using E100S.>>>>>> Hi Kevin, Sorry for the delayed answer, trying to catch-up. However, I see several others have responsed, certainly much better than I. It simply comes down to your descriptions of EV and zone things that I don't have a clue what yer talking about! :) EV I know has somehing to do with exposure values and the zone system is something like that also from Ansel Adams. But the truth of it is, the only zone I know is a de-militarized zone and one shouldn't enter! :) Good thing ther are some good technical folks with us on the LUG. ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant