We had our first snowfall of the year yesterday, a REAL heavy dump of the white stuff (6" in two hours). Since I stayed home from work ("snow day"! WAHOO!), I was looking at the scene outside my window and was REALLY tempted to shoot it on an 8x10 transparency but realized I didn't have the foggiest idea how to meter it!
The scene:
Very, VERY dark, like late evening - heavy leaden overcast, no sign of where the sun was, no shadows, not even a lighter area of clouds.
HEAVY snow in the air, big fluffy wet snowflakes close together - visibility a couple hundred feet - would have been nice to catch on film.
The background was mostly white snow with a few really dark items with snow on top.
There was nothing in the scene even approaching grey - 95% white, subdued light, and 5% black in deep shadows.
Obviously a nice picture would have required a lot more exposure than an incident meter would indicate but less than a spotmeter would read on the black shadows.
The lighting conditions and combination of extreme lights/darks was so far out of my experience that I didn't shoot it.
How would you have approached the speed/aperature selection problem?
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