Marsu42 said:
Not so, I don't live near the equator and unless it's high summer time the sun is never that high. And I I like uwa shots, so often the sun is in the frame or near the frame's edge.
Such a great area for landscape... However, most landscape photographers that I know do not shoot during high noon (out in the field. see below links for more details), except black and white landscape photgraphers who always look for high contrast light/scenes (hints might be found in number of book for example, Ansel Adams in Color)
Marsu42 said:
Your tree leaves example shot shows that a higher sun doesn't necessarily exceed Canon's dr range, but often it does even with proper exposure - with Magic Lantern's raw histogram, it's easy enough to check
I do not use ML, not on my 7D and not even on my 5D Mark III...
Marsu42 said:
In my experience, the difference between Canon 11-ish dr and Sonikon or dual_iso 14-ish dr does make a difference for real world shooting, it's just the difference between clipped sky or not with sufficient detail in backlit subjects (with using a little fill flash).
Of course shooting with 14ev often does give you a hdr-ish look, so if you don't like that at all Canon's dr limit probably won't matter a lot to you.
DR never enough when shooting under high contrast light/scenes and none of current modern camera can handle it; therefore, I am okay with what I am having right now...
See link more information (written by a reknown medium format photographer that I have known, like I say, I do not just keep track of American phographers.)
http://www.brucepercy.co.uk/blog/2013/08/08/do-we-really-need-high-dynamic-range
Marsu42 said:
Well, no, but in my defense I have to say vs. my old 60d I find the 6d's metering is rather dodgy. But as I'm shooting moving animals a lot can expose ok on the first shot, but need a second shot after viewing the raw histogram to ettr and not clip more than I want.
If you can really get a sunset shot ettr'ed perfectly the first time (as the sun's core is always clipped) or have trained to much you can guess manual exposure all the time, kudos to you ... though you cannot expect everybody else to perform at that level.
Btw personally I don't find having more margin for error a bad thing (either via more mp for cropping/rotating or mp for correcting exposure), and as a consumer it's absolutely ok to voice that preference.
I do not shoot animals, so I can not tell anything about it. But every single scene, most of the time, has a different metering number even though you camera has just moved only couples inches. Some photographers prefer shooting animals/wildlife in Av mode, some prefer manual mode and I am one of these people since manual mode does help in maintaining the same exposures when moving my camera from one to another angles... just make sure that animal do not either:
1. run into a dark scene from a bright scene, or
2. run into a bright scene from a dark scene
I will and always use Av mode when I am moving all the time (within couple minutes) from a bight to dark areas, or vice versa, same mode will be used for a cherry farm in a sunny and windy day (Flash definitely a big help under this situation.). However, different people have different of using cameras, just use it in a way that help you to deliver good images.
I first target journalism and like the way of handling lights by Cliff M... therefore, I decided to learn how to get a right exposure from started dates, ignoring about everything else, including post process... When capturing moment, I normally do not chimp at LCD, simply because I will likely to miss moments when chimping. In short, learning light is fun but also pain...
