Questions on 'Understanding Exposure'..

[Peter Loew]

Hi all!

I have two questions that I'd be grateful to get a fuller explanation on by one of you learned members of TP Note I have a Canon 450D.

1) In the book Understanding Exposure, the author talks about Mr Green Jeans, and says when faced with a scene that has lots of green in it, to take the light meter reading from the green making sure it's at -2/3, then recompose and just shoot.

What does this mean practically? My light meter looks like this:

-2 . . -1 . . O . . +1 . . +2

Where on the meter would -2/3 go?

2) Also he talks about Storytelling Apertures, I usually achieve this kind of thing by focusing roughly at 1/3rd of the scene and shooting with the smallest aperture set, which usually gives me a fully focused scene.

I don't understand when he talks about presetting the focus via the distance scale on the lens. Can anybody clarify this?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

P

 

[Simmotino]

-2/3 would be the second dot to the left of the 0.

 

[pxl8]

I don't understand when he talks about presetting the focus via the distance scale on the lens. Can anybody clarify this?

If you look at the lens they'll be some numbers that show the distance it's focused at, normally through a small window on the top of the barrel. Manually focus the lens to the right value and then leave it there for the shot.

 

[seriousrikk]

Although if you lens doesn't have the focus distance marked (I don't think the Kit lens has) then you will struggle a bit more with using the distance scale

 

[pxl8]

Erm, yeah that would make it a bit tricky

 

[Peter Loew]

Ahh thanks to all. I get it now!