I have learnt a little about spot metre oppossed to multi on DP , so last night when i took the wife and kids out for dinner i noticed the sun setting behind the hills.
I spot metred on the sun held the exposure and moved my camera down, Does anyone think the water is too dark or have i created the right effect?
That looks pretty good -- I've been working on the same thing. It's usually possible to post-adjust to bring out areas which are too dark, but once you've blown the highlights out to 0% there's nothing left to recover or adjust.
do you have a multi metered shot that we can compare side by side?
no archiral i was experimenting with spot metering only....all i can say is the water and boats where a lot lighter than it appears in the photo, and i was impressed with how you can make it look dark with this method.
I would have tried spot metering in different places to compare shots. Like one on the sun (like you did), one just to the side of the sun, one in the sky, one in the water, etc.
Like cpanaioti said, it depends on the effect you were tring to capture. If you spot meter the different levels of light you can see the effect yourself, and decided if you made the right choice. And know what choice to make next time. You can just erase the ones you don't like.
I would have tried spot metering in different places to compare shots. Like one on the sun (like you did), one just to the side of the sun, one in the sky, one in the water, etc.
Like cpanaioti said, it depends on the effect you were tring to capture. If you spot meter the different levels of light you can see the effect yourself, and decided if you made the right choice. And know what choice to make next time. You can just erase the ones you don't like.
Beautiful shot - the sky has stayed so blue: does it just do that there, or did you use a white balance trick or filter? I like it a lot - especially the water reflections. Had it been me, I'd have taken an even shorter exposure I think.
What was shutter speed and aperture? My 602 seems to produce best results at f/5.6 - but scenes like that require shutterspeeds up in the thousands (which is OK as it goes to 1/10000).
