Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nicolas: If I were shooting in the situation you describe and didn not have my incident light meter with me, I would have move close and taken a meter reading from only the face, then opened the aparture one stop. If the light on the two faces was different, I would average the two and then open one stop. Then I would return to my shooting position to take the photo. If taking a close reading of the face was intrusive, I would meter off my own hand in similar light and, again, open one stop. kw >I recently shot 2 rolls of Kodak Tri-X 400 (Leica M6 + Summicron 50mm f/2) >at a nursing home. I took a lot of the pictures on two old women that were >sitting in a sofa chatting, at an angle of 0 degrees (I was just in front) >at a distance of about 3 meters from the women. 1 m. at the back of the >sofa there was a window with white curtains that throwed a lot of light, >although there were other windows to the sides. When I framed, I tried to >avoid the window, but the composition I chose, required a little portion of >it to be included. > >I measured on the women and sofa, and with 1/60 my M6 suggested f/8. I did >as she said. >The problem I found afterwards, when I developed and shot the contact >sheets, is that in all of the pictures that correspond to the case I >mentioned and even other in which I was in an angle to the sofa( maybe 45 >deg.) I got a zone right in the middle and middle-top of the frame with >about 1/2 stop more light(clearer in the positive). > >My question, that I think that it could have something to do with my >habitude of having everything done automatically, and that I deal with now >that I changed to LEICA, is: > >Why???? Is it something avoidable? Should I have used the lens-hood >included on the lens? Is it just my ignorance? Will the overexposed circle >disappear when I burn that zone in the darkroom? Or what? > >Please help. >thanks. > > >If Darwin was right, how is it possible >that after millions and millions of years >of evolution, humans are not born with >a LEICA as one of their hands. >Nicolas Levinton, Madrid. SPAIN > nicolev@jet.es - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org>