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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 666126" data-attributes="member: 7240">Simple methodology: put your camera in M exposure mode and center weighted metering mode and turn Auto ISO off. Then point the camera to the sky and adjust the shutter or aperture until you get the meter centered to zero. This is your starting point. Then direct the camera to the foreground, and start adjusting aperture or shutter speed until you get the meter zeroed again. In my cameras each click is one third of a stop, so three clicks means one stop. Two examples: if I'd get 10 clicks, it is 3 and 1/3 stops. If I'd get 14 clicks it is 4 and 2/3 stops.After this set your camera back to your preferred operating mode: Auto ISO, matrix metering, Aperture priority or whatever is your choice.I take it you have graduated ND filters, and want to balance foreground to the sky? Remember, that Lee is is in the filter selling business and they gladly sell you lots of filters. I hope you bought the iRND versions that are glass, instead of the terrible plastic (resin) ones. Long story shot, if you really really want to use a ND grad, then a 3-stop version (0.9) is actually all you'll need, imho.There was a parallel thread about ND grads just a couple of days ago, please see there for my test of dramatic image degradation using a plastic Lee filter: <a href="https://nikonites.com/photography-q-and-a/41594-landscape-kit.html#post665932" target="_blank">https://nikonites.com/photography-q-and-a/41594-landscape-kit.html#post665932</a>Follow the link and in post #3 you'll find links to three full size samples I shot a couple of days ago.</blockquote>

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