There are also times when exposure
compensation is not enough to perk up any particular scene required. This will be
when the overall situation is already too dark and any exposure compensation will
only result in camera shake. Refusing to be have the scene compensated for will only
end with an underexposed image. For such a situation, the use of a fill-in flash
illumination will help make up for the lack of exposure compensation whenever all
avenues to get the image right under normal exposure compensations have been exhausted.
Both beginner and hobbyist shooters almost always use front lighting as their preferred choice for their subject matters. In certain cases, some of them are being taught to use front lighting exclusively and ignore side-lighting and backlighting altogether. These photos of two different make-up artists doing up the finalists of a local beauty pageant were shot in both side-lighting and backlighting respectively.
Metering and overall rendition is of course easier to achieve with subjects that are lit in either front or side-lighting but is always a problem when it comes to backlighting. In both cases, Evaluative metering were used. What may be seen to be severe underexposure on the second photo especially on the make-up artist at first glance was not to be as she was in fact to be in deep shadows while the finalist was correctly exposed. Concerts and stage shows are usually two events where Spot metering is preferred over other metering patterns but there are also instances where it may not be too practical. Rapid changing lighting levels where the main subject may not be lit with adequate light to enable Spot metering to have a clear advantage is one such example like this beauty finalist (below) on stage. A Spot meter reading would have overexposed other parts of the scene but Evaluative metering ensured that all were rendered accurately.
Where Spot metering did work perfectly would be in scenes like this, where this familiar-looking Kadazan dancer was photographed under available light with the EF 135mm f/2.0L USM telephoto lens. Meter reading was taken off her face and the exposure was based solely on that. Everything else could be ignored from the bright backgrounds to her black traditional costume. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . |
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