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tank picture: overexposed upper leaves
Roger - the ultimate problem here is the lighting, not
the exposure. you can try metering for the most
brightly lit leaves and you'll get them at the correct
exposure but everything else will be too dark. or you
could take a lot of readings and try to strike the best
balance - which a lot of the better dedicated light
meters do anyway. no matter what there's just a big
disparity in lighting. the best way i know to handle
this sort of thing is to use a gradient filter - cokin
makes them i believe. its basically a square piece of
plastic thats shaded neutral grey on one side and fades
to clear on the other - its the sort of thing people
use to take pictures of sunsets to get both the sky and
the foreground correctly exposed, and maybe to make the
sky all orange or purple while they're at it. you need
to buy a whole adapter unit to fit the filters onto
your camera. its not terribly expensive but i'm not sure its worth it either, imho
cheers
elie