phildemon2
31st July 2008, 06:36 PM
Hi there forumers
Ok I've got some elinchrom lights and use an aperture of f16-22 usually.
I was watching a photographer in a shopping mall and asked him some questions - the thing is he said he used an aperture of f2.8 most of the time -to me you would have to turn the lights down to get this result - i'm wanting to throw a crumpled - bed sheet background out of focus. He said set the light reader to 125th then take the reading to get the correct aperture and you will get a reading of 2.8 - 5.6 ish - tried but got sameresult using a f16 - 22 - might be using meter wrong.
Going to dig out the metering manual.
Oh another thing - I've just been on You Tube looking at basic light metering
The guy who posted the vid used a reflective metering and said that incident was wrong to use- .... i'll copy the text from comments.
"Why didn't you use an incident light meter reading? You rejected it without explaining why. (Incident would have been simpler, more accurate and less complicatedin this case..... the whole point about incident being it is NOT mislead by an all white subject/background.)
reply by the poster of the vid
"Here goes... an incident reading only works if the subject has an an average amount of lights and darks. The reading is always the same regardless of the subject. It will underexpose an all black subjects and overexpose an all white subjects."
Surely he's got it the wrong way round - isn't that reflected".> an incident reading isn' tmislead by an all the colours textures reflectiveness etc and gives a more acurate result.
Ta phil
Ok I've got some elinchrom lights and use an aperture of f16-22 usually.
I was watching a photographer in a shopping mall and asked him some questions - the thing is he said he used an aperture of f2.8 most of the time -to me you would have to turn the lights down to get this result - i'm wanting to throw a crumpled - bed sheet background out of focus. He said set the light reader to 125th then take the reading to get the correct aperture and you will get a reading of 2.8 - 5.6 ish - tried but got sameresult using a f16 - 22 - might be using meter wrong.
Going to dig out the metering manual.
Oh another thing - I've just been on You Tube looking at basic light metering
The guy who posted the vid used a reflective metering and said that incident was wrong to use- .... i'll copy the text from comments.
"Why didn't you use an incident light meter reading? You rejected it without explaining why. (Incident would have been simpler, more accurate and less complicatedin this case..... the whole point about incident being it is NOT mislead by an all white subject/background.)
reply by the poster of the vid
"Here goes... an incident reading only works if the subject has an an average amount of lights and darks. The reading is always the same regardless of the subject. It will underexpose an all black subjects and overexpose an all white subjects."
Surely he's got it the wrong way round - isn't that reflected".> an incident reading isn' tmislead by an all the colours textures reflectiveness etc and gives a more acurate result.
Ta phil