Lessons in Metering
These two pictures are shot at the same time, light was faling from behind me and in one I was obstructing the light and second one I allowed sunlight to fall directly on the bug, The shiny surface of he bug caused the relection in second case, which confused(?) the TTL metering. So any suggestions for this apart from the technique I adapted (to block the light)?
I am not very experienced with film but of what i know i would go with sudarshans thoughts! bracketing is an option. though i would not really try to block all the light by standing in front of the subject! a better way is to always keep some butter paper and use it to soften the light falling on the subject.. this is from the my days of working with video. this bug really had a shiny back and even my pics came really shiny.. but i think diffusing the light source would have made the shine a little lesser and even on the back of the bug.
Posted by
Nish |
March 02, 2005 9:03 AM
I'd just like to add one thing here (which isn't very important though). I got great results in such situations using a circular polarizer. The light reflected from any shiny polished object are polarized, and if you place your polarizer's plane at 90 degrees, you can avoid the shiny refection and get uniform lighting.
That I did with my car. You can't do it with a busy beetle.
Posted by
Kousik |
March 02, 2005 10:01 PM