musicaleCA
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You say "How much light do I have in my scene?"
Answer, "Lots": Low as you can go on the ISO baby.
Answer, "Hrm, it's a little overcast, pretty dreary": 400 is probably better.
Answer, "Oh my, it's pretty dark in here. I need my flash too!": 800+ (well, in my experience, but one can whip a powerful flash into filling-in enough light with 400).
Answer, "Where the heck did my arm go?!?": 3200+
Okay, that's rough and very joking, but hopefully you get the picture.
More seriously, I go about it by setting the lowest ISO I think I can get away with, meter, and try to expose correctly balancing shutter speed and aperture. If I just can't get a good exposure, I bump ISO up one or two stops; experience dictates how much of an increase is required (or just mathing-it-up and figuring-out how many more stops are required).
Answer, "Lots": Low as you can go on the ISO baby.
Answer, "Hrm, it's a little overcast, pretty dreary": 400 is probably better.
Answer, "Oh my, it's pretty dark in here. I need my flash too!": 800+ (well, in my experience, but one can whip a powerful flash into filling-in enough light with 400).
Answer, "Where the heck did my arm go?!?": 3200+
Okay, that's rough and very joking, but hopefully you get the picture.
More seriously, I go about it by setting the lowest ISO I think I can get away with, meter, and try to expose correctly balancing shutter speed and aperture. If I just can't get a good exposure, I bump ISO up one or two stops; experience dictates how much of an increase is required (or just mathing-it-up and figuring-out how many more stops are required).