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Old 07-11-2009, 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by nemesis256 View Post
I've read in a few places, that people use spot metering with landscape photography. I tried it out once this past weekend, and I either got an over exposed sky or an under exposed foreground. So what am I missing? As far as I know spot metering is only useful when you want to focus your exposure on a very specific point. It sounds more useful for portraits or maybe macro than anything else.
I'd have to agree with your logic..I don't think spot metering is particularly useful in landscape photography when you normally have a broad range of light conditions in your shot.....unless, there is a particular look in your image that you are going for, and you purposely want to over, or under expose the image.
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