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Assignment: Search for the Middle Tones
Don't be bashful! If you want comments, give comments. You don't need to be an expert photographer to express your opinion about the work of others. You don't need to go into great depth. A simple remark about cropping, composition, color, subject matter, etc. can be of just as much help to a budding photographer as an in-depth critique.
Learning to identify middle tones in any scene is like having a steady anchor in a visual light storm. If you can find a good middle tone in a complex scene, you always have a trusted subject you can use as a metering target. For this assignment, search out a subject that you think is a good middle tone — whether it’s gray or a particular color — and either walk close enough to meter just that tone or use your center-weighted or spot-metering function to meter only that tone. Remember, middle tones aren’t just gray, they can also be green grass, weathered wood, or even a red-brick building.
I found the scene here quite by accident while looking for a bakery in the small French town of Amboise. I almost laughed when I saw the scene because it looked like it was designed for an exposure lesson — almost every building in the town was a nice, solid middle-gray tone. I took both matrix readings and center-weighted readings (mostly of the tall building on the right), and they were nearly identical. I tweaked the saturation of the colors a bit when editing this shot, but the exposure was ideal right out of the camera. Taken at 1/200 second at f/8.0, ISO 200.
Remember to visit www.pwassignments.com after you complete this assignment and share your favorite photo! It’s a community of enthusiastic photographers and a great place to view what other readers have created. You can also post comments, and read encouraging suggestions and feedback.
