Victoria Secret video

BWWD,

Over exposed? Really. You may have never shot fashion and may want to study a bit more if you wish to.
 
daveswan said:
I noted the use of an incident light meter in the BTS video.
So I have a technical question, why incident rather than 1 degree spot meter? Not being challenging , just curious.

I have used both in my time when shooting LF stills (Not professionally I hasten to add) and applying Ansel's zone system, and found I preferred the spot meter as it told me more about what was going on.
Would it be worth using one when shooting digitally?

Not intending to thread-jack.

Oh, and the video was beautiful, and perfectly exposed for it's purpose.

Dave
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If you 'know' or 'assume' what the various reflectivities are in a scene, then the incident light meter 'works' more easily, as you take you meter reading 'at the subject', and make your settings.

If you don't know, or want to make sure what the relative reflectivities are in the scene, then the spot meter will allow you to do that.

If you are in the Wild, as in seeing the moon rise over Hernandez, and want to 'place' the white clouds on 'zone 7-8', then you need a spot meter...

In a studio where one can control for lighting and subjects, etc. the incident light meter is probably 'faster', as one does not have to guess at how to
adjust the spot meter reading to the famous 18% grey...

(On the other hand I have seen some people do some pretty lousy estimates of shadow to highllight ratios with the incident meter, which is very
natural for the spot...)
 
bwwd said:
no , i dont want to if it has to look like that.
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Fashion photography is 'all over the place'... ranging from 8x10 or even polaroid 20x24, to who knows, one of those 8mm spy cameras... maybe even a pin hole...

Processing fashion film ranges all over the place as well, under/over developed, cross processing, grain the size of golfballs... film developed in bathtub gin, if it worked...

So, yeah, if you don't like that sort of thing... the obvious advice is 'don't do that'...
 
Many thanks.
I'll have to dig out my spot meter and give it a try, I've been winging it a bit up to now using my 550d's own meter. Pity I managed to wreck my Weston mkV. I can't afford one of the top combines spot and incident meters just yet, perhaps I'll see if I can pick up another S/H Weston (And calibrate it of course)
At least my spot meter has fps and IRE scales.

As I recall when Ansel Adams shot "Moonrise Hernandez" he didn't have his meter to hand and performed a series of mental exposure calculations that still astonish me!
 
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