Question for Wedding Togs - Metering techniques

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Over the past year, I have worked quite hard on practising and refining my metering technique with which I have become quite comfortable.

I take a spot meter reading of my palm to put me in the ball park and then in manual mode, I tweak up or down to ensure that I have a good level of coverage on my histogram and no important areas are blinking.

However, I find that this can become quite tricky when working in changing scenes where the light can change very quickly. I was reading Neil van Neikerk's blog and he mentioned that he uses the matrix metering method, which I thought might have made fine tuning your exposure a lot harder.

Any help or advice on techniques employed by other togs would be greatly appreciated.

 

[david1701]

sorry basically do the same as you but use stuff as opposed to my hand (grass, tarmac other eople ect)

after a while I came to just eyeball it and think hmmm outside looks to be 6 stops brighter so set another manual exposure with a higher shutter speed

 

[ramyad]

I spot meter off the cheek or beneath the eye and then compensate depending on the skin pigmentation. Very quick for me as I shoot manual and only need to change the shutter speed.