Garth
A lovely photograph, although if I were the groom, I should be a little
concerned at how my Best Man is looking at my bride ;-)
It is an excellent example of the use of spot metering, but I would be
interested to see how straight Auto would have handled it considering the
dominance of grey/black in the centre - don't think that groom often wears a
wing collar and morning suit ;-)
Chris
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Chris Barker
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> Joel:
>
> I posted this earlier for another list member. Check out the photo at:
>
> http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/subpages/wood/wedd02a.jpg
>
> which is one of a series of photos I took at my brother-in-law's wedding
> (he'd be the guy in the middle with the shell-shocked goofy grin on his
> face. ;-) I definitely needed spot metering in this situation because we
> were near the summit of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia in early
> August, and behind the couple, about 100 metres distant, was a
> semi-permanent snowpack indirectly illuminated by light coming from the
> cloudbank which had all but enveloped the mountainside. Lots of flare,
> lots of glare, and about a five-stop difference between subject and
> background. And no flash.
>
> I also used auto. I didn't have much time to screw around with composition
> -- just remembering to press the "spot" button before each exposure was
> hard to do, especially since right after this photo was taken I and my wife
> were asked to say "a few words" on behalf of the bride and groom. Without
> the spot, I'd have been hooped. (The lament of many others with
> point-'n-shoots, who ended up getting Jack Squat for photos out of this
> particular sequence. Luckily, the couple had hired a professional
> photographer who knew what he was doing.)
>
> As for using spot on manual, not often -- hardly ever, in fact, in my
> recollection. I usually just switch to full manual and do Zone figgering
> in my head (old habit from the days when all I owned was an OM-1n).
>
> Garth
>
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