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
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