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Against all odds - AF-C with the old, "magic" XF 35/1.4

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Rightsaidfred
OP Rightsaidfred Senior Member • Posts: 2,179
I use the exposure compensation dial all the time
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Rod McD wrote:

Hi Martin,

Nice shot. How did you set the exposure for the horse and your daughter? There's a huge background area of snow. Spot metering? Or EC with experience with snow backgrounds?

Cheers, Rod

Thanks Rod.

It was integral metering.

I use the exposure correction dial really all the time. At least with every second shot, probably more.

When there is a bright background such as snow, it is clear that I need to compensate quite a bit. The camera targets just gray.

I simply checked the image in the viewfinder. In such a case I don't care about blown out highlights in the background.

Exposure was almost good but still not enough, so I additionally lifted the exposure with darktable (just a tad). Otherwise I'd just have taken the OOC image. Had already selected Acros for shooting, it was such a good fit to the winter atmosphere.

Kind regards,

Martin

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