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 12/10/2005 08:39:39 PM · #1
What reasons/conditions make you choose to use a spot meter?
 12/10/2005 08:42:42 PM · #2
major contrast or light and dark in a scene.
 12/10/2005 09:58:06 PM · #3
For creative exposures. My photography used to depend on spot-metering. The partial meter offered with so many DSLRs is a terrible substitute, for my purposes anyway.

Here are some examples of photos which were made using a true spot meter:



Message edited by author 2005-12-10 21:58:39.
 12/10/2005 10:10:04 PM · #4
Using spot made the water black in this shot, that is the same duck, 3 images put together in PS.
 12/11/2005 12:42:52 PM · #5
How did a spot meter allow you to make the water black? Could someone explain this?
 12/11/2005 12:48:36 PM · #6
Originally posted by eslaydog:
How did a spot meter allow you to make the water black? Could someone explain this?


If you have a certain area of the image that you want to render precisely as a certain tonality, it's invaluable to be able to meter that area and calculate your exposure based on that area alone.

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