Re: [OM] Incident/reflected meter readings

[Winsor Crosby]

> On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 19:06, Chris Barker
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote re "Re: [OM] Incident/reflected meter readings" saying:
>
> >  Incident is good for slide, or for any exposure-critical photo - or
> >  should be. 
> ...
> That is where I would disagree. Would you expose the same for a very black
> face as you would for a Noh actor in whiteface?
>
> It depends on where you want detail. If it's everywhere, incident will
> replicate the visual conditions as much as possible. But for particular
> subjects, you may wish to make sure you capture the detail in the bright or
> dark portions.
>
> tOM
That is exactly where an incident reading is valuable so white looks 
white and black looks black. Of course, at extremes you have to keep 
the latitude of the film and the effect you are striving for in mind. 
You certainly do not want the white face and the black face to both 
appear the same shade of gray.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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