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Old January 15th 05, 10:42 PM
Duncan J Murray
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Metering has nothing to do with. 'High-key' is not the treatment of the
subject matter; on the contrary, 'high-key' subject matter consists
mostly of light-toned objects. In other words, use an incident meter
and expose normally.
If you are talking about over-exposure, that is not 'high-key'.


Incident meter - I thought the zone system worked with a reflected light
meter - which is why you don't need to change the exposure in a highkey
scene (low contrast, high reflectance, I guess), if you're using an incident
meter, but if you're using reflected light then I would have thought you
need to place the high reflectance and low contrast in the upper curve of
exposure to prevent it coming out at 18% grey on the film.

Duncan.