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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
07-03-2009, 02:43 AM
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Ivan Glisin - You wrote "I am going to attempt to get some pictures... Any help is welcome!! ... and so on. I agree with you in all of what wou said.
I have found matrix useful in average situations, however my first shot is only taken to evaluate the exposure. I then set the manunal exposure and do not change unless the lighting etx changes. After all 35 years ago when I was shooting colour film in my Hasselblad or Mamiya RB67 I used am incident light meter and of course I altered nothing so long as the light did not change as did most if not all professional photographers. IT WORKED.
Cheers
Ron McDermott
Queensland, Australia
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
10-26-2007, 12:55 AM
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You are absolutely correct (and admirably concise!) Keep on shooting.
Ron
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
10-24-2007, 09:27 PM
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Very interesting thread!
While I have only been using digital for about 5 years, I have 55+ years experience in all aspects of photography - Large format, 120 SLR's and 35mm. I have processed in a soup plate and using both colour enlargers and high speed printers and both roller transport processors and leader.
My experience with exposure, admittedly "down under" is a shutter speed of 1/ISO @ between F11 and F16 in direct sunlight will give a well exposed shot (no matter whether the subject is white or black. This is an excellent starting point for a standard scene. Manual exposure of course.
I always use manual exposure and if the subject does not stand in direct sunlight, I use the green button to estimate exposure and test with the preview setting on the main switch. I use the histogram and the over and under warnings to correct the exposure. Thereafter I shoot away unless lighting conditions change, just a quick glance at the shot while it is on the LCD.
I use PsCs3 Bridge with ACE 4.2 to process the PEF images ( they are about 35% smaller than the DNG's with no loss of quality.I fing that the auto setting in ACR will produce images that are exposed the right of the histogram with excessive brightness - easily adjusted with the brightness slided or even the exposure. The camera, of course, does not know whether you intended high of low key image.
I like a conservative image no blown highlights (except specular highlights) and a minimum of shadow clipping.
They print beautifully.
Let's all keep on improving.
Ron McDermott
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