This is the Improved Photography Podcast episode number 164.

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Improved Photography Podcast.

Today I am joined by Hey everybody and welcome back to the improved photography podcast.

Today I am joined by Scott Robert Lem.

Hey Scott, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me, Jim.

Well, Scott has been a professional photographer for the last 15 years and does incredible

Photography especially his portrait work and has done classes on Creative Live who's been an advertiser on our podcast, and does workshops all over the world,

so we're excited to have you here on the show.

Well, we have a bunch of questions that have come in over the over the last well really just couple hours

the the pace on our improved photography Facebook group is is really picking up

with questions over there well the first question is from Radhika Dixit, who asks, why not use spot metering all the time?

What's the advantage of switching to a valuative, center-weighted, etc.

Wouldn't you just get the same effect by spot metering,

a point in the shot that is equal to 18% gray?

What kind of of metering mode do you use most of the time Scott?

You know I used to I usually am in a evaluative mode. I don't use spot metering a lot

but I guess it depends, you know, on what you're shooting.

You know, if you're shooting a large landscape with different types of exposures in it, usually evaluative is pretty good.

But if you're kind of shooting a portrait and you're zooming in, let's say, just on the tone of

the skin or so forth, then I think Spot will work best then too.

Yeah, I almost always shoot in Matrix mode as what Nikon calls it or evaluative is what Canon calls it.

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