Photographing a black horse in a dark barn

[Romanko]

Wait. We're talking about slide film?!

No. The discussion is about exposing BW negative film, "Way beyound monochrome", the Zone System or any other metering techniques applicable to low-light low-contrast conditions. Sorry for the confusion. Slides and digital capture were mentioned because they require a different approach to metering.

 

[CMoore]

Seems like a great opportunity to bracket 3 frames and see what you get.
The results can be stored in you human computer for future use.
I think, too often, photogs feel some kind of need to pick just one best exposure, or they feel...............inferior.?

 

[CMoore]

'Will someone move this horse into Zone Two so I can photograph it?'

Am i the only member that got a good laugh from this.?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Am i the only member that got a good laugh from this.?

I got it the first time too, but chose not to comment.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

You just did...

 

[Vaughn]

Am i the only member that got a good laugh from this.?

I would have, but I got that stupid meme of workmen moving the stones at Stonehedge for the time-change in my brain, related the two, and that ruined the laugh.

 

[CMoore]

I would have, but I got that stupid meme of workmen moving the stones at Stonehedge for the time-change in my brain, related the two, and that ruined the laugh.

Life deals some pretty low cards sometimes.

 

[Vaughn]

Life deals some pretty low cards sometimes.

Yeah...like finding that your emotional support animal just ate your comfort food...

 

[MattKing]

Yeah...like finding that your emotional support animal just ate your comfort food...

I was actually sitting in a bakery/restaurant once across the table from a couple, where the woman had a small spaniel support animal sitting on the bench beside her - with the dog's face not far from the table top.
The people were engaging and friendly, and the dog was wonderfully trained and well behaved ......
Until just one too many delectable treats passed within a few inches of the dog's nose.
Finally, the inner dog won out, and the dog licked the muffin on its way to the woman's mouth, to the surprise and vocal consternation of the couple.
It was all I could do not to blurt out - "she is a wonderfully behaved dog, but she still is a dog!"

 

[Doremus Scudder]

Yeah...like finding that your emotional support animal just ate your comfort food...

That got a laugh from me!

 

[cliveh]

I'd give this subject normal exposure (straight off the meter) in order to put the black horse and dark barn on the straight-line part of the film's characteristic curve. That's where the best tonal separation happens.
Then I would PRINT the negative down to the desired level of darkness to reinforce the black horse/ dark barn impression. A fully exposed negative does not dictate tonal terms to the enlarging paper; rather the other way around.

It's not often I agree with Maris, but he is dead on with this.