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ruben
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Till now I have been using two cameras, one with ISO 200 film for daylight and the other with ISO 1600 for night shooting.
The problem during daylight street shooting with one camera is that due to my city climatic situations I am not surrounded with high buildings, nor roofed by overcast clouds. Therefore I am in a constant schyzofrenic situation of direct sunlight and shadows.
Both alternate with simple and extreme speed. You are besides an open space - direct sun. You cross the street - shadow. Shadows may vary a bit.
So you can understand that the street photographer here is constantly preseting his camera from f/11 to f/4 or lower. Or whatever equivalent you like, according to your preferences.
And, of course, any preset of DOF is out of question, although I am not used to it, and you can understand why.
But I have been cooking an idea to settle things down, that may or may not work: To add a third camera.
Thus two cameras will be dedicated to daylight in a way so simple that it sounds to me too silly, yet let hear your opinions.
One camera will work with ISO 100 color film for direct sunlight situations, and will be presetted in aperture and speed. Perhaps DOF too. Direct sunlight under bright sky never changes its intensity, unless you are at early morning or evening.
The other camera will be loaded with ISO 400 BW film and presetted in "auto", for shadow situations. I take for granted that to some extent this "auto" light metering may be faulty, but the margin cannot be too gross.
Therefore, I will be walking with two cameras and the only thing left to me is to pick the right camera, meter the distance and shoot. This is of course just the technical side.
Nevertheless there is a slight problem in this approach: mixed light. On situations that what interest me is under sunlight, no problem: the sunlight camera will be used.
But at situations of mixed light where the subject is shadowed - I will have to use the BW film shadows camera, but not in "auto". Hmmm... some trouble here.
Yet overall, it sounds this way I may improve my speed of reaction and ensure better exposures. Do you agree ?
Cheers,
Ruben
The problem during daylight street shooting with one camera is that due to my city climatic situations I am not surrounded with high buildings, nor roofed by overcast clouds. Therefore I am in a constant schyzofrenic situation of direct sunlight and shadows.
Both alternate with simple and extreme speed. You are besides an open space - direct sun. You cross the street - shadow. Shadows may vary a bit.
So you can understand that the street photographer here is constantly preseting his camera from f/11 to f/4 or lower. Or whatever equivalent you like, according to your preferences.
And, of course, any preset of DOF is out of question, although I am not used to it, and you can understand why.
But I have been cooking an idea to settle things down, that may or may not work: To add a third camera.
Thus two cameras will be dedicated to daylight in a way so simple that it sounds to me too silly, yet let hear your opinions.
One camera will work with ISO 100 color film for direct sunlight situations, and will be presetted in aperture and speed. Perhaps DOF too. Direct sunlight under bright sky never changes its intensity, unless you are at early morning or evening.
The other camera will be loaded with ISO 400 BW film and presetted in "auto", for shadow situations. I take for granted that to some extent this "auto" light metering may be faulty, but the margin cannot be too gross.
Therefore, I will be walking with two cameras and the only thing left to me is to pick the right camera, meter the distance and shoot. This is of course just the technical side.
Nevertheless there is a slight problem in this approach: mixed light. On situations that what interest me is under sunlight, no problem: the sunlight camera will be used.
But at situations of mixed light where the subject is shadowed - I will have to use the BW film shadows camera, but not in "auto". Hmmm... some trouble here.
Yet overall, it sounds this way I may improve my speed of reaction and ensure better exposures. Do you agree ?
Cheers,
Ruben
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