I took this picture in Rotorua on the North Island of New Zealand in 1981. Rotorua is renowned for its powerful and dramatic geysers. At the time, I was using my first 6x7cm medium format film camera, the Mamiya RB 67. I shot this on Kodak Ektachrome 64, a slide film. The settings were unrecorded, but they were probably 1/400, f/5.6, and 64 ISO. I used a hand held light meter at the time, and normally I’d use it on incident mode which reads the light falling on a scene as opposed to the light being reflected from it (as our in-camera meters do). When you shoot into the sun, though, incident mode doesn’t work. It won’t produce an accurate reading. The only thing I could do was use the hand held meter on spot reflected mode and choose a medium toned portion of the sky from which to take the reading.
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