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fakewebname In reply to BriceChallamel [2009-05-19 01:59:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Very nice coming from someone with such a gallery.

I have already learned something from your comment about the unbalanced horizon.

I also have developed a question since we last spoke. Where do you take a meter reading? I always naturally take it from the part of the photo that I focus on. But that is not always the brightest part of the scene. In this instance, this caused an overexposed sky.

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BriceChallamel In reply to fakewebname [2009-05-19 05:21:21 +0000 UTC]

Yes, there are actually 2 ways : direct metering is taken from the subject and indirect with the white cap off from the camera. Personally, I don't meter anymore except "extreme" cases (long exposures over 5 minutes at night of complex flash). I trust my camera for it mostly, but I shoot raw so if something went wrong I can still overexpose or underexpose, or restore part of the photograph with the raw editor.

In the case of this picture, I think the exposure is fine because the subject matters most. It's a typical headache because of the background fence, if this was shot in raw rather than jpeg format, you could extract a second "underexposed" shot and blend it with layers and masks on photoshop to retrieve the sky and background.

Be well and keep shooting!

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