I was reading last week on the different metering options on my camera. One of which is spot metering. On the standard evaluative metering mode your pretty much relying on your camera to have a look at all the colours in the photo then make an estimate on shutter speed. with spot metering your picking a single colour then telling the camera to expose that colour perfeclty then let everything else in the picture follow suit. A good example is if you take a picture of a landscape and meter off the clouds you find that you get stunning cloud deffinition. The flip side being though that the ground is then underexposed. it works vice versa. Meter off the green grass and the sky is over exposed. So spot metering doest work in all situations.
A situation which came about this weekend though was when i was taking photos of Banjo my friend Laura`s Dog. Banjo is a black dog and was lieing on a white sheet and a coloured blanket. with evaluative metering the camera didnt know what to do it was trying to find a happy medium between the extreme white and extreme black of the dog so all photos just came out over exposed. including the hound. When i spot metered on Banjo the camera exposed him perfectly brining out his black coat a dream.
Quite pleased with these. The contrast between banjo and her black coat along with the coloured blanket and white sheet works nice i think. a real AWWWW moment :-)
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