Thanks for the useful clarification, but in the case of Walt's subject
hands, I think the melanin may have been replaced by carbonized deposits of
some sort, which may have been a stop or two the other side of 18% grey!
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Siddiq
Sent: 29 January 2005 22:33
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Shooting for hire
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:23:01 -0000, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So tell us, Walt, is it true what they say about the back of a hand
> being an adequate substitute for a grey card?
>
> --
> Piers
Not walt, but given that i use this technique very very often, i would like
to chime in. not the back of the hand, but the *inside* of the hand, where
your palm is. no melanin inside the hand regardless of your skin tone. it is
almost exactly 1 stop away from 18% gray. meter your palm, open up one stop.
palm has to be in the same light as your intended/primary subject, of
course. excellent for tricky lighting conditions where reflection CWA can be
thrown off, palm+1 is as good as incident or getting a gray card reading.
most of the tombs shots taken in india were metered that way.
--
/S
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