> 1. How do you do exposure most of the time? Av or Tv or manual (doing it
> yourself)?
digital:
based on just a smaller (about 1/5th) sample of my photobase currently
on hdd (so it's not that representative):
60% manual
30% aperture priority
10% program
<1% shutter priority
(based on my memory, it would be more like 45-45 manual/aperture
priority, the rest program mode)
> 2. Do you shoot digital or film?
both. about 80% digital. Actually, all my SLR work is done on digital,
with film in rangefinder camera.
>
> 3. If you shoot digital, have you changed how you do exposure since
> switching
> from film?
no, manual was always a slight majority in my shooting, even on film.
Even with cameras with P,A,M modes.
Although I have to be more serious about metering with digital. That's
why the manual mode even on digital - in a venue or at a shoot, I can set
exposure
based on histogram, perhaps for several places if the lighting is
diverse, and shoot away on manual knowing that the exposure will be
very similar, thus less need for postprocessing. Same with
whitebalance - I have auto WB. That's mainly for reportage type work.
In more changing light, I will usually use aperture priority with
any metering mode that suits the kind of shoot (spot, center or matrix).
On film, I am not metering much. Perhaps just a quick sampling with my
trusty egg meter (sekonic studio deluxe <g>) and then my mind's meter.
Good light!
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