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Subject: Re: [OM] A couple more [was Friday Flowers]
From: Don Holbrook <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 08:50:06 -0400 (EDT)
The faint streak on the right side makes the photo...........to me.

> 
>     On April 3, 2017 at 1:29 AM Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     On 3/31/2017 11:24 PM, ChrisB wrote:
> 
>         > > 
> >         Very nice, Moose.
> > 
> >     > 
>     Thanks!
> 
>         > > 
> >         It’s interesting that red is no longer such a problem.
> > 
> >     > 
>     Well, it's not been an insurmountable problem for me for many years. But 
> it still requires attention and action when
>     taking the shot. And I believe that will likely remain true for a long 
> time. It's been around for a looong time, too,
>     with the narrow DR and unforgiving cutoff of Kodachrome and other 
> reversal films. It's certainly not new to digital,
>     although details are different.
> 
>     Browsing through the endless shots I took Friday, I see some small red 
> flowers caught in the sun, against a dark
>     background. That fools even the sophisticated ESP metering of the E-M5 
> II. Spot metering isn't any use, either, as the
>     flowers themselves are slender. As I'm composing @ 600 mm eq., getting 
> the spot in just the right place isn't easy;
>     things bounce around without IS and tend to jump in discrete steps with 
> IS on.
> 
>     The first exposure, at my sunlight default of -0.7 EV, is hopelessly 
> blown, second, @ -1.3 might be usable, in a pinch,
>     but maybe not. The choice will be between -3.7 and -4.7 EV shots.
> 
>     Yup, -4.7 EV is the winner. 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=21761>
> 
>     That doesn't mean I am underexposing the flowers, but that I avoid 
> overexposing them to cater to AE's efforts to avoid
>     making the background dark. But a dark background is exactly what I saw, 
> and wanted to capture.
> 
>     Pay that sort of attention, and red is easy to handle. The over and under 
> exposure indications in the EVF are a great help.
> 
>     Red Moose
> 
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>     What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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