Have a fantastic trip! Thank you for your most insteresting articles. My main photographic interest is bird phography. The main focus point being the eye. Is spot metering the best setting to use? I wouldalso like to have a sharp image of the eye and also have good detail of the body feathers, beak and legs.
Should I consider using a different metering mode? Hi Roy I would recommend using single point autofocus and spot metering. Your meter reading will be for middle gray and thus your portrait will be underexposed. You need to add a stop for caucasian skin and more for darker skin tones.
I have only now discovered your articles! Thank you. I am a photography student, really into portraiture, and have been struggling with the recent module on metering and its textbook…then I found your articles online and I now understand! Regards, Yelena. Hi Yelena What a great start to the day — your comment was the first one I read this morning. Thank you! So glad it helped! Thank you for the article. Would you use eye detection in preference to spot metering for some portraits?
Many thanks Sue. Eye detection for focusing is the main reason I would like to switch to a mirrorless camera. Brilliant technology! Instead of metering for the entire scene or a general section of the scene, spot metering allows you to meter for the area that you want correctly exposed. Your email address will not be published. Freezing motion in photos with a fast shutter speed. Pin Sony also offers a fifth option in some cameras — entire screen avg. Hasselblad cameras, on the other hand, refer to their metering options slightly differently.
Centre spot prioritises the central section of the screen and is suited to scenes where the subject is in the centre of the frame. Spot metering, like other cameras, provides an accurate measurement of a very small area and disregards any information outside of that area. When creating an image, I find the best option is always to shoot in Manual mode and set the exposure yourself by controlling the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
I usually set the aperture first and then set the shutter speed based on that. I make my exposure decisions based on the results I see and the histogram information. Landscape images are one example where you may want to use evaluative metering.
Using this mode will help you get the best overall exposure for the whole scene, even if there are bright highlights or deep shadows. Centre-weighted metering is best suited for any image where your subject is in the centre of the frame, or even where the subject fills the majority of the scene. A typical example of this would be portrait photography or macro photography. The key thing to keep in mind when using this mode is that the rest of the scene may well be under or overexposed.
For any scene where you want to expose for a very particular area, spot metering would be the best choice. Examples of where you might use this would be when photographing the moon or any high-contrast scene where you want the subject to be correctly exposed.
They even used to print on the film packets what the exposure would be for sunny, hazy or cloudy situations. This provided a guide, which meant it was simply a case of then adjusting the f-stops and shutter combinations based on the recommended settings.
I measure the light visually by looking at the result and the histogram and then decide on what exposure settings to use from there. But none of the metering modes will guarantee you the correct exposure or balance out the exposure range in the scene. You still have to look at the image and evaluate how you can get to the desired result. Exposure compensation, also known as EV, can be used to make corrections to the exposure. An EV setting of 0 means no adjustments will be made to the image.
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