On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:23:01 -0000, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So tell us, Walt, is it true what they say about the back of a hand
> being an
> adequate substitute for a grey card?
>
> --
> Piers
Not walt, but given that i use this technique very very often, i would
like to chime in. not the back of the hand, but the *inside* of the hand,
where your palm is. no melanin inside the hand regardless of your skin
tone. it is almost exactly 1 stop away from 18% gray. meter your palm,
open up one stop. palm has to be in the same light as your
intended/primary subject, of course. excellent for tricky lighting
conditions where reflection CWA can be thrown off, palm+1 is as good as
incident or getting a gray card reading. most of the tombs shots taken in
india were metered that way.
--
/S
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