Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:58 PM 8/13/2002, Michael Gerard wrote: >Wade, > I like the haircut photo's simplicity. A nice still life. You used >the right aperture to keep the background objects out of focus and less of >a distraction. Thanks...I was kinda forced to use 2.0 as it was available light only, but hey, I love it when things come together. > I LOVE week 31. I missed it when you first posted it. Can you >comment on how you metered this scene to achieve this exposure? What were >the conditions like--very early morning or very late evening, I'm >guessing? I'm trying to work on more dramatic use of light, and it's >shots just like these that I need to learn from. This was about 7:30 in the morning. My family backpacked into a camp on a hill in Point Reyes NS and we got up to a wonderful fog rolling in from the Pacific. My son and I walked down the trail a bit to explore and I saw the sun peering thru the trees/fog. I metered it with the hexar's internal meter head on and snapped the pict. Often, If I had been thinking more about it, I would have metered the shadows, used AEL and then recomposed, but as my son needed to get to the restroom, I didn't. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . w a d e h e n i n g e r i n t e r a c t i o n d e s i g n a d o b e s y s t e m s . i n c . - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html