If the light is too contrasty for sensor to capture you can make it more flat using flash, reflector, diffuser, etc... soft shadows are more pleasing anyway for my eye. If you want scene to be contrasty you can easily blow highlights or make shadows black in post processing. If you can't make the light flat, then you have to think about exposure and use spot metering and think what you will lose and what you will keep.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > And what if the light is not flat? How about if you want to =interpret= > the scene? What if you're not shooting digital, or using matrix metering > (assuming that matrix metering is the panacea you think it is?) > > Shel > > > From: "David Zaninovic" > > Subject: Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > > > > > > > That's right, if you shoot raw and you captured all the info who cares > > > about the exposure, you can change exposure during raw > > > converting process and the result will be identical as if you > compensated > > > the exposure correctly at the time of shooting. The > > > important thing to take care of is not to have blown highlights or > shadow > > > go to pure black and matrix metering in flat light will > > > take care of that in most of the cases. I still would compensate for > > > black or white door but for the sake of discussion I don't > > > think it would make so much difference as you think. > >
