MOUNTAIN EXPOSURE

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Dear Evan,

Perhaps you have not received mail. I have two times send you mail. Please let me know how to send photo.

Apratim.

On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 efusco@aol.com wrote : >Evan Fusco (efusco@aol.com) responded to a message you >requested notification for in the General (Not Archived) bboard: > >Subject: Response to Mountain exposure > >1)Show us a sample, that would be the single most helpful thing you could do. > >2)How did you determine exposure? Matrix, center weighted, spot--if so on >what? > >3)Were they over-exposed, under exposed, part of both? Was the scene front >lit, side lit or back lit? What part was the exposure wrong on--part of the >scene or all of the scene. > >With good technique in determining your exposure there should be no need to >bracket as broadly (1-2 stops) as you asked about. I typically bracket in >either 1/3rd, 2/3rd or both increments unless completely uncertain of my >exposure (rare). There are many factors that could be causing you to not have >accurate exposures--highly reflective snow will cause under exposure if there's >a large amount, back-lit mountain may blow out the sky while underexposing the >mountain. Foreground may go dark while the mountain/background are properly >exposed. Give us more, show us an example and I'll bet we can solve the >problem in just a few seconds. >

-- APRATIM SAHA (apratim_11@rediffmail.com), June 28, 2003


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