Just an example that working in tricky light situations without a light meter is easy if you have a good starting point. It was a bright sunny day, after noon, and at my latitude I have 1/250 for f/11.
For this shot I knew that the garage would be darker than normal shadows, so I must have opened three stops, knowing that the only highlight that would blow off would be the little shaft of light coming from the ceiling.
I agree with ER. It appears a bit under, but the colour is surprisingly close considering the mix of manmade and daylight. I would have expected far mor yellow/orange than the amount of blue/cyan seen in the scan.
Yep, I agree with the underexposure. Sadly my J8 does not even have half-stops!
Although there are artificial lights in the background, most of the light comes from the garage's open door in which I stood (cf. the reflection in the windshield of the bus), hence explaining the rather neutral balance.
The only manips I made on the scan was to adjust levels in order to get a decent black. I'm not sure if this has a big impact on color balance, but on the original slide the colors are similar to what I see on screen.
Oh, and for bragging rights: I did not even bracket! That's the only shot I took.
It feels so incredibly liberating to operate without a meter, and to have decent results! There's no meter this, compensate for that, point somewhere else, hesitate, dither, etc. For negative film in 35mm, it's a technique I'll try to keep sharp, at least to make sure that I'm always pre-set to a useable shutter/aperture combination.