Thought I'd make a cross-post from AWOT. It was very grey/rainy, as you can probably tell. Not the best photo day. I thought a few turned out OK though:



The city was founded in Roman times under the name Pons Aelius. The medieval Latin name is Novum Castrum super Tynum.

Not exactly bustling:

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They call this the Quayside of the river Tyne:

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Tyne Bridge:

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Quayside:

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A thin pub:

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This wall was built in the 1100s by the Romans:

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Attempt at urban revival:

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I wasn't the only one, azn tourists:

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Dick Cheney:

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Interestingly, the Tyne river is the same colour as the beer:

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Blight:

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Audi in the shadows:

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voted as England's finest street in 2005 in a survey:

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nice arcitecture:

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Romans built it:

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Tilting walkin bridge:

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The bright gray sky is throwing your meter off resulting in an already dark buildings and shadows even darker.

Try spot meter and take the reading off the building area and then the sky. Try to lean towards the building because the sky is the sacrificial lamb here.

i didn't know this

of the round building is pretty well exposed, because there is little sky.

This is why I loved my old OM-3, it's got the bestest and easiest to use multi-spot metering system in the world.

For starters, you can just spot meter off a "medium" tone in the building. You'll get good building exposure and a washed out white sky. Then experiment with a little bit of underexposure to try to retrieve a little sky detail without the buildings going too dark.

I underexposed most shots and shot in RAW, as it was very easy to blowout the sky.

I always thought it best to expose for the highlights?

1. your dSLR (if you are using one) probably has some sort of AE lock (meaning that it locks the exposure reading, allowing you to recompose and take the shot. While this isn't averaging, your spot only measures a very small amount. The 'center weighted' meter is averaging the light readings but leaning towards the center of the frame. Conversely, matrix (as it is called in the Nikon world) does some funky voodoo that I'm not up on.

2. Your brain is an excellent multi-reader ;-). You move your camera so that the center (in spot mode) is 'looking' at the darker part of the scene. Press shutter half way. Look at what it thinks is the proper exposure setting. Then w/o taking the picture move it to another, much brighter spot and take a reading. Now figure out what is more important and 'lean' your exposure into that direction meaning if your dark areas are reading 1/60th of a second at f5.6 and your highlight areas are reading 1/500th at f5.6 then you have a 3 stop differential.

Depending on what the frame looks like, I'd probably expose it at 1/125th if your main subject matter is in darkness. The other way is to bracket manually.

Everyone is different, and it totally depends on the subject matter, but the key here is to ignore the camera making the decisions mostly.

but really, it depends on the subject matter. The buildings in this case are way more exciting than the dreary sky.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml">I thought this was a good article</a></li></ul>

i'm all for reading up on the technobabble to make sure you're getting the maximum out of any image, but ALL of that goes out the window becasuse no scenario is perfect. As such, you have to make choices. I agree that you should as they say 'expose to the right' because that will allow you the most flexibility for a given image, but there are exceptions.

Either way, you have to figure out what is your intention behind the photograph and decide from there whether the instrumentation you have should be followed or not. It is merely a suggestion. You and your brain are the ultimate deciding entity.

By the way I Love # 3 (-:

looks like typical dust on sensor. YOu can REALLY see them when the cloud/sky is your background.

is valid only if you are skilled and do some serious post-processing on your computer.

some may require more than others. Always has, always will be.

or perhaps it just appears like a big city from you photos.

thanks for sharing.