Eric,
some really nice pictures there.
http://logos.uoregon.edu/uoling/faculty/pederson/pederson.html
I myself am an India fantast.
So you shoot colour and print it on B/W paper? (As you hear I'm not a
darkroom specialist)
For example, I overexposed this photo (from color negative film) relative
to what an ambient light reading would indicate:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~epederso/Photo/Gallery/People/PandiBald.html
The effect, by the time the image reaches paper (and then the scanner and
your monitor) is that the saffron and white clothing and the dusty
background are quite washed out (although detail is still available enough
to be acceptable, I think). However, the unnoticeable effect is that you
can see the detail of the subject's face which would have been lost if I
had made a normal exposure. Since the face is the main point of the photo,
the washed out background is the right price to pay. The skin tone is
represented as actually far lighter than in reality, but the idea of
"dark" is maintained by the contrast, and the details are importantly
there.
Wouldn't it be the same to spotmeter his face?
Henrik Dahl
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