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asnow
06-22-2011, 09:08 PM
I was listening to a podcast where they had a challenge to go out and shoot up to a roll of film and use no metering. They simply used the sunny 16 rule as a basis to determine the exposure. (Mind you they did use film which has a larger latitude than digital)

This seems like an interesting exercise to understand lighting and exposure. So I'm going to try this assignment for myself. Go out and take maybe 20-30 pictures. Shoot in manual and not use the LCD preview to see how the exposre went after shooting the picture. Wait until I get back to see the results. Analyze the pictures and exif data to see how well I did and repeat until I can get most pictures right.

Not sure if this is suitable as an official assignment, but maybe an unofficial one. What do you think Marko?

Michaelaw
06-23-2011, 10:26 PM
I'm gonna drive to work tomorrow with a blindfold on, if that goes well I'll try not using the meter next time I shoot:laughing: