At 09:48 AM 1/23/00 +0000, Dirk Wright wrote:
[snip]
>Hmmm, that's got me wondering now...I've never used *under* compensation. I
etc...
Dirk:
I use under-compensation when shooting things such as a shady,
tree-lined street with slide film. If you just let the
auto-exposure do its thing, it makes the cool, dark green cavern
look like high noon in Saskatchewan in July. One or two stops
under-exposure are necessary to re-create the "feel" of the scene
for others viewing your efforts.
Slight under-compensation can sometimes help with saturation,
although modern slide films seem to have less of a problem here. I
always used to under-expose Kodachrome by about 1/3 stop to increase
the saturation. 'Course, I don't use Kodachrome at all anymore,
with the new E-6 films being so good. (Not to mention the fact that
hardly anyone processes Kodachrome anymore, at least in Western
Canada, so you have to send it off to get processed and it can take
as long as two weeks to get results back...).
Garth
A good reminder Garth. I have in the past been really disappointed
with the result of an over-exposed shade - even when using shadow on
an OM4, but that was the printer compensating automatically 8-(.
Chris
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Chris Barker
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