Well, still trying to use the Sunny 16 method. Seeing I was about 100' from a white adobe condo. 4 per unit (2 units showing) with cactus, shrubs, flowers and trees seperating each unit of 2 - 2 bdr. (ends) and 2 - 1 bdr. With the brightness in my viewfinder I decided to use F/18 with the formula. Full frame, with curb cropped out only.
BTW: I had strong blinkies for building at F/16
Comments welcome and appreciated
Olympus E-3, Zuiko ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD, Gitzo monopod @ 100 mm
Manual, f/18, 1/125s, ISO 125, 0.00eV, CWA, AWB, sRGB
10-08-2010, 01:08 PM
John Chardine
Gus- what a beautiful casa and very nicely rendered. I like the hole in the trees with the cloud detail there, and the vegetation detail along the bottom edge. As for exposure it looks good on my monitor. Regarding the blinkies I know they are somewhat inaccurate and tend to be conservative- in other words, they can be there but not show up too severely if at all in the RAW image, and then you could dial in some Recovery to get them back. All bets are off if you shoot jpeg though. Did you try an image at F16 and if so are you able to recover the whites?
10-08-2010, 05:00 PM
Gus Hallgren
Hi John;
Thank you very much for looking at my Sunny-16 attempt. I did not keep the F16 attempt as the white adobe was riddled with highlight blinkies in camera. I did play enough that I now I think I could take manual exposures that would be reasonably acceptable.
