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Originally Posted by Chewy734
In general, you want to expose for the subject of your scene. So, in your example, you want to expose for the fox (generally the head/eyes region).
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Chewy's right, but you want to
over expose the fox (ETTR) to the extent that you can without blowing out important highlights. You'll create a larger file (more megabytes of data) that you'll have further flexibility to process in Raw conversion.
I use Center Weighting metering, not Spot. With Spot, you need to be very careful and understand 100% how the meter works. It DOES NOT see a subject and figure out what's the best exposure. Instead, it sees the subjects and says to itself, what exposure will make that thing under my spot 18% medium grey? Really, that's what it does. So, if the subject is white, it underexposes it to make it darker and if it's dark, it overexposes it trying to make it medium grey. That's wonderful if you have a model holding a medium grey card up beside her face, but it sucks for most other live subjects that might leave in the next second.
Where you can, when you see an image that you like, study the EXIF data. Flickr provides it on most images, unless the owner hides EXIF.
Dave