{"id":36655,"title":"Advice requested / Pentax K1000, 35mm and 50mm, Kodak Gold 200ISO","author":"carolineb2349","permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1q64i8x/advice_requested_pentax_k1000_35mm_and_50mm_kodak/","description":"The light meter on my camera is working properly. I’m well versed with a digital camera but because I can use referential knowledge i.e. I can immediately see how a photo looks and quickly change settings to get the photo I want, I just find that easier, obviously. It is quite a challenge with film that I enjoy a lot.\n\nI love the first photo but it is obviously underexposed. I know how to edit it to fix it but I want to get it right the first time more often. I’ve included other photos that I think are a much better exposure level, including the last photo which features similar features aka a bright spot and a rather darker surrounding area. \n\nI do not want advice regarding setting the ASA on the camera to be different than what my film is as I am not experienced enough to play with that quite yet. Rather, I’m more so confused why my first photo looks like that when I treated the meter response the same in the other photos. In difficult lighting situations like this, where should I be pointing my camera to correctly meter so that the brights are still very stark against the darks and now blown out, but the darks don’t have that low-contrast look? Also, I don’t have my negatives for this roll. TIA.","score":24,"nsfw":false,"grayscale":false,"timestamp":1767756664,"sprocket":false,"camera_make":"pentax","camera_model":"k1000","film_make":"kodak","film_type":"gold 200","film_speed":200,"focal_length":35,"images":[{"resolution":"low","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/3dced161-373b-4ae6-b75c-bc4869b512fd.jpeg","width":477,"height":720},{"resolution":"medium","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/2f33b17e-f250-4f61-a784-228c313d8a16.jpeg","width":716,"height":1080},{"resolution":"high","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/9021bc90-913f-40a9-a73c-9eac2d2062ef.jpeg","width":954,"height":1440},{"resolution":"raw","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/3d8166cc-f710-4a61-9005-748d6124b160.jpeg","width":2033,"height":3068}],"colors":[{"hex":"#152b38","css":"darkslategray","html":"gray","percent":0.55004541},{"hex":"#83573a","css":"sienna","html":"olive","percent":0.16716286},{"hex":"#4a2f36","css":"darkslategray","html":"gray","percent":0.16230104},{"hex":"#c99654","css":"peru","html":"tan","percent":0.11161717},{"hex":"#ffffff","css":"white","html":"white","percent":0.00887352}],"keywords":[{"word":"pentax","weight":0.25},{"word":"gold","weight":0.25},{"word":"kodak","weight":0.25},{"word":"k1000","weight":0.25}]}