johncox

<p>It looks like a few directors and Hollywood studios are teaming up to keep Kodak making movie film. I make the occasional order for Kodak Double X so this is welcome news.<br> http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6071961044/hollywood-studios-strike-deal-to-keep-kodak-movie-film-in-production?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=generic</p>

<p>In this case I would let the light from the candle fall onto the grey card and the measure the card. The idea is to measure something that's neutral toned and lit by the light your scene is using. There's no need to get into other complicated metering methods.</p>

<p>There's a few ways of doing this, one is to take a gray card (a piece of paper or cloth that is 18% grey) and meter the light in your scene falling on it. Another is to use an incident meter, which may be a function of your spot meter.<br> The concept of an incident meter is to measure the light coming towards the light meter instead of the light reflected off of (in this case the completely black ) background.<br> Making a grey card isn't too difficult in photoshop. The insides of a 35mm carton of kodak film usually works too. </p>