Fort Penney & Its Defender
Saturday was super hot and completely cloudless, so when I went to the mall to get a hot dog in a cool bun the JC Penny's grabbed me.
I also really exercised the spot meter in the EOS 3. It kinda kicks ass, too. I'm starting to understand how to work exposure and what the zone system is useful for. The short version is "How far apart are your lows and highs in terms of exposure? Where do you want them to be?" I still need to get a sense for how the film reacts but the meter is extremely helpful. It's got memorization so I can grab a meter reading for a couple spots, and it'll plot them on a bar in the viewfinder and run an average (so darks are dark and lights are light).
I was gonna say I thought these were a little too hot, but I stared at them a bunch and rewrote this paragraph and now I kind of think it's right. The asphalt isn't too far off from the sidewalk in tone, and the overall brightness doesn't seem out of character. It was just so goddamn hot out, then sun was burning, but nothing's clipped to white for no reason. I think if I keep working at it I can develop a sense for this. Like importantly, the body of that gas meter is basically that tone. It's a strangely light blue-gray, and I metered that purposefully so I could land it where I thought it should go.
I dunno. I'm working it.
