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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 623448" data-attributes="member: 13090">When I look at the histogram of the shot above, I see pretty much exactly what I would expect knowing you used Spot metering. The shot was metered for middle grey based on what was immediately under the focus-point while entirely ignoring anything and everything else in the frame. Remember: It's not the job of the meter to give you the exposure you WANT; that's your job as the photographer. The job of the meter is to give you a consistent, baseline of exposure, based on middle grey, which you use a springboard to dial in the exact exposure you want. Learn to think in &quot;middle grey&quot;, because that's how the meter &quot;thinks&quot; for every... single... shot... and in every metering mode (with the exception of Matrix which is a little more complicated). Once you learn to think like the meter does, (middle grey, middle grey, middle grey) your ability to expose a scene the way YOU want it exposed, will improve dramatically.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 623448, member: 13090"] When I look at the histogram of the shot above, I see pretty much exactly what I would expect knowing you used Spot metering. The shot was metered for middle grey based on what was immediately under the focus-point while entirely ignoring anything and everything else in the frame. Remember: It's not the job of the meter to give you the exposure you WANT; that's your job as the photographer. The job of the meter is to give you a consistent, baseline of exposure, [I]based on middle grey[/I], which you use a springboard to dial in the exact exposure you want. Learn to think in "middle grey", because that's how the meter "thinks" for every... single... shot... and in every metering mode (with the exception of Matrix which is a little more complicated). Once you learn to think like the meter does, (middle grey, middle grey, middle grey) your ability to expose a scene the way YOU want it exposed, will improve dramatically. [/QUOTE]

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