The Tunnel Tree - Tuolumne Grove, Yosemite National Park, California

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4x5 view Camera, Schneider 75mm/5.6 Super Angulon lens, yellow filter, Ilford FB4+ film with Ilfotech DD-X developer, tripod. Early morning.
 
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Excellent, Nihat. (Did you post this just to take Rob back to his childhood?:))

Nihat, would you mind describing how you metered the scene and what meter you used?

Thank you.
 
Thank you very much, Brian. :) No, this posting on RPF was for all of you.

This tree has a very interesting story. It still amazes me that some of these Sequoia trees were just infants when the Greeks attacked and invaded the old city, Troy in western Anatolia. That was over 3000 years ago. These living giants have stories to tell us, if we are in silence and open to receive.

I use a 1 degree spot meter when I work with zone metering. It's all about pre-visualization. So, it all depend how you interpret the light and how you want your final print be. Traditionally speaking, I'd start from a zone II and compare the other parts of the frame and determine the development times (N, N+1, N+2, N-1, N-2.) As the light meter only sees everything in zone V, I adjust all the measurements in my mind to its zone value and factor in the filter, adjust the lens accordingly and remember to pull the insert from the film holder. [doh] More time is spend on scouting, setting it up, composing, focusing, waiting for the light, etc. After the image is made, I make some notes and perhaps a rough drawing of the scene with details on it.
 
Thank you very much indeed, Rob. :)

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Thank you very much Brian. :) We all know little and learn a little more everyday from each other.
 
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Rob MacKillop said:
Now that, in a nutshell, is the art of photography. It's where I'd like to be. Well done, Nihat.
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You got that right Rob!
Me, I blast away until it looks close on the screen on the back of my camera. :(
 
Splendid Nihat and a nice brief write up on how you meter too. I never saw the use for a spot meter as I just used the cameras built in spot meter to compare different areas. That is fine for digital but now I am thinking more about using film more regularly I realise that my fiilm cameras don't have spot metering and I can't take photographs the same way as I do for digital.

What spot meter do you use?
 
Thank you very much, Paul. :) Sekonic L-758 is the one I use with LF and MF set-up. On 35mm, Olympus OM 3 and 4T both have very accurate spot metering that can combine multi spot metering. This is an interesting approach that was very useful when I was using only slide film with standard processing at film lab. I believe they are much more affordable now. OM3, an all manual camera has become a collectors' item, but OM4T is relatively cheaper. OM4T can calculate exposures up to 4 minutes, I think. They both do highlight and shadow calculations with a push of a button which recalculates the standard zone V light meter measurements to their actual values.

http://downloads.fotosource.com/public/camera_manuals/Olympus/35mm/OM4Ti.pdf
 
Fabulous image - Yosemite is a treasure trove which I intend to return to (without family in tow!)

Concur on the use of Zone - I tend to meter the brightest area that would still return detail in the final image, put that in zone 7 (2-stops shift) and go from there.

Ansel's equivalent of exposing to the right!
 
Thank you very much, Chris. :) Good idea... I do work long hours when I am alone. That works too, though I have not tried. [doh]
 
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