stephen_moseley1

Thanks for the answers....it all seems like good advice. Something I did forget to mention was that it will, weather permitting, be outside in a park. Is there a particular brand of 400 or 800 you would recommend? (I had someone recommend Kodak 400 NC to me) Thanks again. Steve

So a friend of mine, in order to cut cost, is having several people

he knows come to his wedding and take pictures. I mainly do nature

photography, but he wanted me to come, and I thought it would be a

good challenge. I pretty much use slide film entirely for color,

and I'm thinking that might not be so good. I am open to renting

lens, but this is what I do have: Canon 50 1.4 USM, Tamron 28-80 4.5-

5.6, Tamron 70-300 4-5.6. I have no flashes except those on the

camera body. So, 1) Should I rent faster lenses 2)What film do you

recommend 3) Should I get a better flash? 4)Is renting going to be

increda-expensive?? Thanks for your help. Steve

I've been doing photography for about 3 years now, and I feel I am

getting to the point at which, perhaps, I could start making money

from this. Now, I don't have plans of becoming "pro" from this, but

if I could make some money on the side to cover developing and

equipment, that would be great. I shoot mainly nature photography

but am starting to branch out of that as my visualization gets

better/clearer. I'm not really even sure where I would begin. I

would love to hear some of your advise. Thanks very much...These

forums (and you who are in them and provide answers) have been a

great benifit to me on my journey.... Steve

First, thanks for all the help. Ok, for the example I stated above I forgot to mention that, in order to counter-act the partial metering problem I used my Tamron 70-300 1:4-5.6 to fill the frame with the subject. I set up the gray card in my room (which is pretty dim, but evenly lighted). In order to have a middle tone reading on my Elan, the setting is 30 secs and f/22. I used apeture priority on the spot meter to keep the f-stop at f/22 and the reading is 8 secs. Is there some sort of conversion I need to do here? If I use the 8secs and f/22 the picture would be very under exposed. I really feel like I'm missing something simple here. Sorry if this seems dense. Thanks......

First, I must say that since I dived into photography about 2 years

ago, this site and people like yourselves have been a GREAT help to

me as a beginner. Thank you.

 

I am looking to get into LF, but due to good 'ole money situations,

I'm constrained in how much I can buy at a time. I've been using

the TTL meters in my Canon EOS Elan 7 and Rebel to meter all my

pictures and have had good results. I knew that I would want Spot

metering for LF so I looked into getting one. I got a Gossen Ultra-

Spot off of Ebay (unfortunatly after I read some negative responses

to the meters ability to determine correct readings for saturated

colors). This is my question. Because of these responses, I tried

metering my car (which is bright red) and my Elan and the Spot meter

are several stops different. Won't the meter in my camera depend on

the lens that it has attached (i.e. a faster lens won't need as much

light and therefore have a different reading?) How do I convert to

an equivalent reading in my camera??? Or am I screwed with this

meter. (If so, I have a 30 warranty.) Thanks a ton. - Steve