Common exposure with TMax400 with yellow filter for sunny scenes?

Eric Verheul · Mar 20, 2021

Number 15 yellow. TMY-2 at 400 leaves me setting my spot meter to 160 (for the 1 1/2 stop filter comp) The darkest windows I wanted just the slightest hint of detail, and that put the highest of the high values only 5 stops brighter. f22 at 1/30th sec was enough exposure to place the darkest shadowed window at a zone 2, and I gave this roll N+1 development to pop the contrast up a bit. The nice thing about Pyro and other staining developers is that there are usually enough details in the denser parts of the negative to burn those values down in the printing process, though I had to do nothing significant to this print, other than cropping out the foreground.

Sirius Glass · Mar 20, 2021

BrianShaw said:
Juan... I understand completely what you are describing but you seem to be referring mostly to “non-average” scenes. Can you show us example of your work where the image is what you are looking for, and an image that is not what you are looking for.

Asking others for an exposure recommendation doesn’t seem to be the approach I’d be taking to address photographic exposure. I’ve had some spare time on my hands lately and compared spot metering of shadows vs average metering and found them to generally be close enough to each other. Hence, an assurance that paying more attention to subject matter and composition results in more and better photographic images.

As Brain points out properly calibrated light meters agree exactly.

ic-racer · Mar 21, 2021

Juan Valdenebro said:
No, ic, that graph doesn't talk about exposure nor about photography. At all... It talks about light only. Of course sunlight varies. That variation doesn't mean the same for slide film and for negative film.

I may have misunderstood your question. You asked: [do you] find your exposure for sunny scenes change a lot,. And my reply is "YES" and you can see how much it does change by season and time of day as shown in the graph. Exposure for reflective objects is determined by the intensity of the light falling on the object, that is shown in the graph.
Photography is light only. Unless you are physically bending the film or doing kirlian photography.

Maybe re-phrase the original question.

Common exposure with TMax400 with yellow filter for sunny scenes?

Eric Verheul

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