Philippe Clairo
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Location: Calgary, Canada
Registered: 10 Jun 2011
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What Metering Setting?
Posted: 6 Feb 2012 at 23:57 GMT
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shoot a spherical on a Canon 5Dm2 + Canon 15mm
Would you set your metering for:
Evaluative
Partial
Spot
or Center-Weighted?
And then, where would you meter the light from?
I'm thinking "indoor with bright windows", HDR, etc...
Thanks!
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Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
Registered: 9 Jun 2009
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Re: What Metering Setting?
Posted: 7 Feb 2012 at 17:41 GMT
updated: 7 Feb 2012 at 17:42 GMT
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Philippe,
I am by no means a pro at this and there are many who attend this forum who are much better than I. I use a spot metered reading and set my camera to this setting. All shots are made in the manual mode with the same exposure setting. I shoot in HDR thus all of the brackets are made around this same setting. The pros will tell you to meter on one lighter areas to be imaged. Getting back to your question spot metering seems best to me. Take a look at my question concerning metering just down from your question. Hopefully others will give you their thoughts.
Laddie
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Judy-A
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
Registered: 20 Jan 2010
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Re: What Metering Setting?
Posted: 7 Feb 2012 at 19:09 GMT
updated: 7 Feb 2012 at 19:15 GMT
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I think the reason you’re getting few responses it that there are many answers to the question of metering and bracketing. The technique changes depending on the subject matter.
I you want quick and dirty bracketing, use matrix metering to find the average exposure for the mid-level of brightness in a scene and use that as your middle exposure for bracketing. That approach works pretty well for outdoor landscapes on a sunny day.
If you want to make sure that you cover the entire dynamic range of a scene, then separately spot meter the brightest and darkest areas where you want to preserve detail. Calculate your brackets accordingly.
If the scene is beyond the capabilities of your camera to capture in a single bracketing sequence, then you may need to shoot the scene twice with different settings each time, or use a third-party bracketing controller like the Promote Control.
Experiment to find out how far you can push the RAW files from your camera. I can seldom recover much light detail from a RAW, so I make sure my brackets cover the detail in the brightest areas of the scene like clouds or snow-capped mountains. You may be able to recover dark detail in post-processing by raising EV two stops in your lightest RAW image.
If you google “metering for hdr” you’ll find a number of tutorials.
Judy
PS: The techniques above assume shooting in Manual mode with the same settings at every position in the image sequence.
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Laddad
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Re: What Metering Setting?
Posted: 8 Feb 2012 at 0:20 GMT
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Philippe,
Judy-A is one of those who knows far more than I! I told you someone else would come to the rescue of your question!
Laddie
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