[pure-silver] Re: Pure Black and Golden.
- From: "richard l. gifford" <rlgif@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:24:21 -0600
Peter Badcock wrote:
(snipped)
... I somehow thought that a cloudy day would imply my
scene
> would have a low brightness range. Wrong! The range of
> the intensity of REFLECTED light from the scene determines
> the scene brightness range (SBR) and NOT the absolute level
> of INCIDENT light (e.g. on my cloudy day). This is a subtle
> yet important difference, since we often equate bright sunny
> days with a high SBR and cloudy days with low SBR...
For this reason, I have never understood the concept of
an incident meter. My camera never sees incident
light, so like you I meter the reflected light that it
actually does see. You have to make all these voodoo
guesses to adjust the incident readings for the
estimated lighting conditions or the estimated relative
subject brightness, and I can do that with the sunny 16
rule and no meter at all.
Regards... Dick Gifford
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