Incident light meter
The authors recommend increasing the exposure by two stops in the first case and reducing it by the same amount for the low-key dark horse scene. The second advice appears to contradict with the "expose for shadows" rule.
Actually, it follows the "expose for the shadows rule".
Thank you Matt. That explains it. I shoot both digital and film often simultaneously so my instinct was to "expose to the right" in both media.
Very nice image! The dynamic range of this scene must have been huge! Is this a scan of a print? Is it toned?
'Will someone move this horse into Zone Two so I can photograph it?'"place" the shadows where you intend them to be
Incident light meter
Good adviceI haven't photographed something that overall dark, but if it's just all dark I'd certainly expose generously, one can still print down, there's no point in making a super thin negative on purpose, that will be hard to print. A good low key image IMHO is all about the few select highlights though. So I'd try to have interesting lighting and make sure the highlights remain printable.
I like that. It is a failure of the reciprocity law, but a bonus to us who can use that extra bit of contrast in a scene. I often go light on the adjustment to exposure -- let those small little dark areas in the scene that will be too small to see detail in the print anyway, drop down to Zone 0...then give it extra development to really pump the contrast up!reciprocity law bonus
Maybe try some fill flash
I would do the same. If the scene is of small dynamic range I might even overexpose a stop or two to use all available dynamic range of the media. The Zone System apparently suggests that the negative should render the tones closer to what they seem to the eye.I'd give this subject normal exposure
I call it reciprocity law bonus, not failure.
Yes, meter the black horse
I recently started shooting slides and while my first six rolls of Ektachrome came out reasonably well I feel that I could do a better job with metering. Hence my interest in the Zone System.
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