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Mythic Menagerie: Rise of the Gobliniods
Mythic Menagerie: Rise of the Gobliniods by Super Genius Games
This product is 11 pages long. It starts with a cover, and forward. (2 pages)
The forward explains why the book was made.
It is a collection of new gobliniods to use against your players. Each one has a full page write up about them and a full stat block. (8 pages)
Atahsaia CR16, giant, outsider gobliniod.
Erlking CR10, gobliniods that lived in swamps that for what ever reason had a source of mystical or magical power in it. That twisted and transformed them.
Majnun CR12, outsider. Created by efreet, they captured and transformed bugbears into new creatures to be their foot soldiers.
Ophidiyarr CR14, mutated gobliniods of a group of goblins that long ago worshiped a snake god, these things are the remnants of that. Part snake, part gobliniod.
Ponaturi CR6, a semi aquatic offshoot of bugbears.
Puck CR2, small non evil gobliniods that almost seem more fey than goblin.
Tree Grim CR4, a hobgoblin and bugbear mixed breed that took to living among and in the tree's, evolving into a new race.
Vinayaka CR8, winged gobliniods, that are believed to be corrupted by demon blood.
It ends with a OGL. (1 page)
Closing Thoughts. I think this is easily the best of the series so far. It is a mini monster book, that focuses on varies types of gobliniods. I honestly liked all of the monsters in this book. The art work is good black and white. I didn't notice any obvious errors, spelling or in the stat blocks. For the price this is a good pick up, if you want more gobliniods or just some more monsters to spring on your players. I recommend picking it up. So what's my rating? Well I am giving it a 4.5. It is very good, I would have liked to have seen a few more base gobliniods types like Tree Grim, but that is just personal preference.
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(One other note: If this bores you, feel free to skip to something else. What do you want from me? Football's not coming back until August and "Lost" is off the air. And I don't have the energy for a basketball post just yet.)
First up on our tour: Nov. 4, 2000, the night Alabama finally lost to LSU in Baton Rouge, snapping a win streak that stretched all the way back to 1969. It was my first trip to Tiger Stadium, the first time I ever saw goalposts come down in person and one of the first truly bizarre road trips of our collegiate experience.
The lead-up: Every Alabama fan has been trying to forget the 2000 season since the day it ended. It was supposed to be a coronation: Mike Dubose's Tide, off an SEC championship and Orange Bowl berth, was ranked third in the nation to start the season. We had all made up our minds that it was a national championship season in the making, only three seasons removed from a losing season in 1997. Instead ... well, you know. By the time LSU week got here, our championship contenders were 3-5, a mark that included losses to Southern Miss (21-0!!!) and Central Florida (on Homecoming) and a sixth straight loss to Tennessee. The coach had already been fired, the NCAA wolves were knocking and we all couldn't wait for the season to be over, so we could move on.
Meanwhile, LSU was trending upward. Under first-year head coach Nick Saban (yep), the Bengal Tigers had rebounded from early-season losses to Auburn and Florida and a ghastly home loss to UAB (you read that right) and were 5-3 by the time Bama showed up to party. Saban's team was out of contention for an SEC title, but everyone was pretty sure his program had turned.
How we got there: The trip to LSU actually came together the way all great college road trips do: insanely.
First, it's important to point out that we purchased tickets to the game from ebay; and, if memory serves, my friend Amanda — who I'm assured will be emailing me soon with her own memories about this — actually bid on a block of 7. I distinctly remember sitting online, watching the clock tick down on the sale date, chatting with Amanda on AIM (back in the days when AIM was en vogue). The page refreshed, we were listed as the winners, and both of simultaneously typed, "HELLL YEAH!!!!" We were on our way.
The trip: Of course, winning the bid now meant we had to find a large group of people who would be willing to buy tickets to Alabama-LSU. Lucky us, it's not that hard to find people willing to go to Louisiana for the weekend. The group that came with us was actually much larger than our ticket pool.
This, of course, brings to light the most interesting aspect of the trip: Like most good Bama fans going to a game in Baton Rouge, we arranged for accommodations in New Orleans ... and by "accommodations" I mean our pal Tim reserved 3 rooms at an Econolodge in Metairie. Three rooms for a group of roughly 20. Do that math a moment. Yeah.
(Note: I won't get into the sleeping arrangements, because everyone's married now and it would be uncomfortable. But, as Robert Redford said in "The Natural," Some mistakes you never stop paying for.)
Now here's where my memory gets a little fuzzy and I may be making portions of this up: We were originally supposed to be sitting in Tiger Stadium in a group of 4 (the rest of the tickets were somewhere else) and our group was myself, Peter, Amanda and Tim (the guy who booked the motel). However, in a twist that only makes sense if you know the guy, Tim decided Saturday morning that he hadn't participated in nearly enough Bourbon Street debauchery the night before, and informed us he was staying, freeing up his ticket. That meant our seating group now included our mysterious friend Pam, who nobody really knew at the time (we knew she was eleventy feet tall and that was about it). And we were running late.
Lucky for us, Baton Rouge, like every other college campus, is a frigging traffic quagmire on game day. We wound up parking illegally somewhere roughly 15 minutes before kickoff, and sprinting to our seats (somewhere in the upper stratosphere). On the way, someone shouted, "Y'all sure are in a hurry to see an ass-kicking."
Without breaking stride I shouted back, "Aw man, we OWN this stadium!"
I was, um, wrong.
The Game: The recap I found online filled in some of the gaps, but here's what I remember: We actually played pretty well that day, even took the lead early in the fourth quarter (capping a drive that was briefly interrupted when two students broke free from the bleachers, mooned the Alabama sideline and attempted to sprint away (it was not, shall we say, successful).
Aside from the game falling apart in the fourth quarter — like everything else that season — I have one other random memory from the game: a critical sequence in which LSU appeared to have fumbled a punt that we recovered. An Alabama player on the punt team definitely collided with the returner and caused the fumble, but initially the ruling on the field was that the defender was blocked into the returner (hence, no penalty). Bear in mind: at the time, instant replay was not a thing in college football.
So the refs huddled to discuss the play and — at least from our vantage point high above the earth — appeared to look at the jumbotron (absolutely illegal) before (correctly) ruling that our player hadn't been blocked into the returner at all. It was and still is the right call, but they arrived at it the wrong way. Ah well ... that's just the way things went in 2000.
Anyway, LSU eventually took a 30-21 lead late; we mounted a last-ditch comeback and had an onsides kick (just like 1998) that ultimately resulted in nothing. LSU 30, Alabama 28 was the final.
The Goalposts: Undoubtedly the funniest part of the game was the prospect of LSU snapping its 30-year hex vs. Bama in Baton Rouge, and the ensuing celebration that would undoubtedly take place. People who watched the game on television told us later that CBS showed a close-up of the goalposts at Tiger Stadium ... which were coated in Vaseline, roughly an inch thick, in an attempt to discourage potential climbers.
Furthermore, as the fourth quarter wore on, and it became obvious LSU was going to claim that special win after all, the public address began to make the obligatory announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, for your safety and the safety of others, at the conclusion of tonight's contest, please stay off the playing surface." The prevailing response: "BOOOOOO!!!!!"
Honestly, I remember being giddy. I had never seen this in person. We weren't going to win anyway, so what was the point?
The students, of course, immediately flooded the field as soon as the clock hit 0:00, attacking the goalposts the way a zombie horde would attack a Celine Dion concert. The Vaseline, it should be noted, deterred them for approximately .0087 seconds. And as the posts began to wobble, the PA piped up again: "EYES UP, PEOPLE ... GOALPOSTS ... ARE HEAVY."
Eventually they did come down, of course, both of them. And as the elated fans were parading their new trophies around the field, the PA piped up once more: "FOLKS ... IT'S BEEN A GREAT NIGHT ... CAN WE PLEASE ... PLEASE JUST CLEAR THE FIELD AND LET'S GO HOME?"
One Bama fan summed up the experience better than any other, exiting the stadium as the mob worked feverishly: "TEAR IT DOWN!! IT'S YO MONEY!!! TEAR IT DOWN!! IT'S YO MONEY!!!"
The aftermath: This one is pretty straightforward: LSU carried the momentum from its win to a Peach Bowl berth vs. Georgia Tech, who they walloped. The next year they won the SEC; two years after that, they won the national championship (that Saban guy, it turns out, is a pretty good coach).
As for Alabama, the misery of 2000 wound up carrying over for the rest of the decade, as we've documented here endlessly. Since LSU broke the Tide's win streak in Baton Rouge, they've pretty much dominated Bama on any field: with last year's win in Baton Rouge, the Tigers are 8-3 vs. Bama this decade. Although everyone pretty much agrees the playing field is much more level since Nick Saban moved to Tuscaloosa.
The group that made that trip to Baton Rouge is a pretty diverse one. Most notable are Peter and Amanda, who argued incessantly pretty much all the way to Louisiana and all the way back to Tuscaloosa ... and have now been married for nearly six years, and have a two-year-old daughter.
Everyone knows you shouldn't let the good ones get away.
One addendum: Per my request, here is my friend Amanda's version of the story ...
Ebay was still pretty new then, and I was really into buying tickets on Ebay that season. I found a group of 7 tickets, and I found a group of people so I was pretty sure that I could bid on them. We ended up paying about $70 each, so $70 x 7, about $490 including shipping. I ended up having to walk from the bank to the post office to buy the money order with $490 cash, plus the cost of buying the money order, so I made Peter walk with me since I was carrying that much cash.
Tim Roberson reserved a hotel in Metarie, which was for more than just our party of 7. I think he had 7 hotel rooms. Our party of 7 was me, Peter, Will, Alison Britton, Sealy, Pete, and ?. Others on the trip included Lane and Valerie, who ended up spending the entirety of the game in a casino, even though they were both underage at the time. Buddy, Lori, Lisa, Blair, Heather Deal, Eric Elliot, Eric St. Clair, probably Scoob and some of the C.C. folks. I remember Buddy carrying a Big Ass beer down bourbon street. Keener and Clint Hathcock were also there, as was Daniel.
Peter borrowed his dad's Saturn for the trip, and in Peter's car were him, me, and Will. I'm sure we had to listen to that stupid orange CD (which Peter tells me was Nickel & Dime), and probably Smalltown Poets, too. Alabama hadn't lost a game there in over 30 years, as I remember it. We drove to Metarie, checked into the car, and then we drove into New Orleans to eat dinner. Peter was about to kill someone because he was so hungry. Peter was getting so testy that we started arguing as I told him how to drive. He told me to be quiet since I was his ride back home. After I said I could fly back home (meaning go to the airport and book a flight), he loudly muttered "yeah, on your BROOM." We ended up eating at some random Wendy's because that was the first place we could find, which I think was near the Superdome. Peter was meanwhile was putting curses on the city of New Orleans
We ate dinner, drove back to the hotel, and met up with everyone else, then drove BACK into New Orleans. At this point, somebody was driving somebody else's car and we ended up on a ferry on the Mississippi River trying to turn around (Sealy driving Valerie's car?). We ended up getting a huge table for 20 people, and it was so late we all ended up getting dessert. Will was sitting at the head of this very long table, and the waitress was flirting with Will. After some of them had started to leave, she hands Will the check, and it's something along the lines of $328.78. This meant that we either had to pay in cash, or somebody had to pay on the credit card, so it took about 20 minutes for everyone to leave because we're trying to divide everything up.
At this point, it's midnight, and Will sees some friend of his (or was that the next trip?) It's midnight, and we go to Cafe Du Monde and we EACH order the biggest Iced Coffee / Latte concoction you've ever seen, which meant that nobody was going to get any sleep all night. We hung out there for a while, discussing whatever we discussed. Then, we met back up with the other people who Peter was having to drive, and we got back to the hotel around 2 a.m.
Will and Peter refused to wear pajamas and instead slept in your clothes, which I thought was really weird. Sleeping arrangements were not as planned. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, That's all I've got to say about that.
At 4:30ish in the morning, Will curses, jumps out of bed, and walks out of the room. Amanda and Peter finally go to sleep.
The next day we drove to Baton Rouge. Can't remember if Pam rode with us or not. We saw a bunch of Alabama fans in limos and such on the way. We walked around campus some, found something to eat, and then it was time for the game. We sat in the upper section. I have little memory of the ball game, except Clint Hathcock (I swear it was him) (editor's note: it was not) shaking his shaker and chanting "it's your money, tear it down" as he was coming down the stairs while the LSU fans were trying to tear down the goalposts. Outside the stadium, LSU fans were heckling us "round the bowl, down the hole, roll tide roll."
We stopped at a Fuddruckers to eat dinner, and then went back to the hotel. We decided not to go back to New Orleans since we were late getting back and we hadn't slept the night before.
This trip also offered a clear signal that Peter and Will would not make good roommates. As soon as Peter heard Will talk in his sleep, Peter jumped up, grabbed a pen and paper, and wrote down the exact quote and the time (2:08 a.m.)
I don't remember much of the ride home. We had some type of strange conversation on the way back.
Peter realized when we got back that he lost his "brain" (his PDA) and didn't find it until May or something. There was also a rumor when we got back that Blair was hoarse because she and Peter had "hooked up" on the trip, even though the two were never in the same room, even in public. Peter realized after quickly denying the rumor that he could have had some fun with it, since he had a clear memory of the entire trip, but there may have been periods where her memory would be, shall we say, fuzzy.
Come to think of it, maybe losing his "brain" altered his life, since he might never have actually talked to people, run for president of Wesley, asked me out, changed his major, or preached his first sermon if he were still playing solitaire on that.
What am I leaving out?
All in all, a good road trip, but not as funny as the trip when Will took a vow of silence and tried to use a pay phone at the same time. Still one of the funniest things I've ever seen that I'm not sure I actually visually witnessed.
Other random memories
Tim Roberson having a cow about people paying for the rooms ahead of time
7 rooms with 49 people in them
$70 for hotel room, $70 for tickets
That's all we've got until our memory is further jogged.


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It's my opinion: "People will forget what you said and did, buy they will never forget how you
made them feel." _ Maya Angelou
How could I not agree with the late Maya Angelou beautiful words of wisdom? I think, this
quote should be the goal for every single wedding or event that we do.
For this reason, it drives me nuts, whenever I give a speech or interviewed for a Magazine or
TV, and I get the following question repeated times:
"Preston, don't you think it's a big waste to use all those flowers and do all that work, just for
one day?"
Continue……. Won't it be better to give all that money to a charity?
Obviously, these folks do not get it. We are in the business of creating lifetime memories.
We are in the business of helping our clients create just that; a feeling and a memory that
would last for a life time.
This past weekend, I attended a party in New York, and by chance I ran into two of my former
brides. The first thought was, God, hope they are still married. And to my joy, my beautiful
former brides were happily married.
Both the brides were very excited to see me and did not miss the opportunity of thanking me once again for creating not only the lifetime memories for them, their families, and also bringing an over the top experience to the guests that they'll never forget.
I would conclude by saying, Oh yes, we do use a lot of flowers, and Yes, at times we spend
many sleepless nights, and absolutely yes, all that money could be donated to the charity.
But then Maya Angelou resonates in my ears as a reminder to be true to what I do, who
said, "People would never forget how you made them feel."
Do you think using flowers in abundance to decorate a wedding is a waste? Do you agree that
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How to article: Using an 18 percent Grey Card. This article discusses using in-camera reflectance metering with an 18% grey card. This article applies to both film and digital cameras.
Grey cards are literally a grey rectangle made of cardboard, plastic or cloth, and can be purchased from any camera store for about $15 to $30. What they all have in common is they are made of a photographic neutral shade, averaging 18% grey. Ideally, you want one that can be folded or cut so it fits in your camera bag.
- Using a Grey Card
- Why use a grey card (the proof)
- Interpreting the results
- Grey Card reading + 0.5 stops
- Dark Subjects, night scenes overexposed
- Light and backlit subjects
- Controversy and exceptions
Why a Grey Card?
With your camera, do this 1-minute experiment to prove why you need a grey-card:
1. Place a dark sheet of paper or a dark magazine on the table-top, then cover it with a white sheet of paper.
2. Using the camera, focus on the white paper so it occupies most of the frame.
3. Meter the scene, noting the camera's recommended shutter speed and aperture.
4. Remove the sheet of paper and meter the darker scene. Note the different exposure.
- ? Knowing both subjects were in the same lighting, why does the meter reading change when the subject's color is different? Isn't the subject in the same quality and quantity of light?
- ? Which meter reading should you use if both the dark and white subject are in the same scene?
The Answer: Neither the white or black-paper reading is correct. If you were to actually take the photographs, you would see the white paper looks grey, not white, and the dark paper will look grey, not black. The issue is this: The camera meter is fooled by the color of the scene and will not set the exposure correctly.
The Camera Meter is Usually Wrong
When a majority of a scene is "whiter than normal" (snow, concrete, light colored walls, backlighted) or "darker than normal" (black subjects, theater stages with dark curtains, night shots), all cameras meter incorrectly.
But here is the surprise: It turns out with almost any scene, any subject, under any lighting condition, the camera's meter reading is wrong to some degree. This is true with landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Granted, on an average scene, the meter is close and you will get an acceptable picture, but almost always, a more accurate value can be set with an inexpensive grey card.
Better exposure means less post-processing. Better exposures give better colors, with better shadow details and this is true with film, digital and digital RAW.
(For reasons that are too complicated to explain here, all cameras, film and digital sensors are calibrated for 12 to 14% grey, depending on the manufacturer. Grey Cards are calibrated at 18%, for black-and-white printing -- meaning the grey card is not quite right. This article explains how to work around this. The world really needs a 13% grey card.)
Buying a Card:
Grey cards can be made of cardboard, plastic or cloth and ideally should be waterproof -- but I have found some plastic cards too glossy. My card is the cardboard variety and because it is not waterproof, I have to replace it every few years. But being cardboard, I can cut it to any size; mine is about 6x8". For in-camera metering, it should be at least 5x7" or larger. The back of the card should be white, which I use for White Balancing.
You will see some credit-card-sized cards. These are meant for post-processing and are too small to help with in-camera metering.
I do not have any brands to recommend, but here is an Amazon link to get you started:
Using the Card
For in-camera metering, follow these steps
- For simplicity, set the camera to Av mode (aperture preferred) or Tv (shutter preferred)
- Hold the grey card in the image area
- It does not need to be accurately focused but it must be in the same quality of light as the subject.
- In the view finder, it should occupy most of the image area. Zoom if needed.
- Angle the card between the lens and the main light source so it does not glare
- Do not cast your own shadow on the card
- Note the exposure (Shutter speed and aperture). This is the exposure that should be used, plus 1/3 to 1/2 stop, as explained below.
Interpreting the Grey Card:
1. While metering the card, note the exposure.
2. Then remove the card and re-meter the actual scene.
3. *If* the exposure changes (either the shutter speed or aperture changes), then exposure compensation is needed. Use the grey-card's reading for your final exposure, plus a third to half-stop, as explained below.
I find it easiest to set the camera in either Aperture Preferred (Av) or Shutter Preferred (Tv) mode. This way, only one meter value changes as the card is removed. For example, if in Av mode, the aperture stays fixed and only the shutter changes.
In the viewfinder illustration above, the grey card metered at
125 @ f5.3 (this is the grey card's recommended exposure).
Without the card,
250 @ f5.3,
indicating a +1 stop (+1.0EV) over exposure is required.
Because the grey card is 18% grey, but the camera is calibrated to approximately 13%, add an additional 1/3 to 1/2 stop to the grey-card reading. The variation of a 1/3 to 1/2 depends on your camera. Some cameras jump in third-stop increments and others, especially older cameras, use half-stop increments. The difference is immaterial.
The final adjustment can be seen on a graph:
Setting the Compensation:
There is no need to count or calculate the number of stops.
Start with the camera's recommended meter reading. Then, using your camera's Exposure Compensation controls ("+/-"), spin the dial until it reaches the grey-card's recommended setting, plus one click for the +1/3 (or +1/2) additional.
Cameras vary in how this is done, but most work similarly. Illustrated below, is the Nikon D5100's compensation controls.
When adding that last +1/3 to +1/2 stop, use 'one more click of the spin-dial' from the grey-card setting. If under-exposing, spin the wheel the opposite direction (remember, you are always 'adding' the last-click - even if under-exposing); see the 'dark subject' example, below. As a reminder, under-exposure means "less light," with shorter shutter speeds or narrower apertures but you still need to add that last 1/3 stop.
See also this handy reference/counting chart: Fractional Shutter Speed and Aperture chart.
Important Note: In order to use 'Exposure Compensation' the camera must be in a non-automatic mode (switch the camera's mode dial off of fully-automatic (the green mode) and place it in either Aperture Preferred (Av), Shutter-Preferred (Tv), Programmed (P). Most cameras, in the green-squared, fully-automatic mode will not allow exposure changes.
A little history: For decades, grey cards were simpler to use: You would use the grey card's reading without any other adjustments. But with digital cameras, histograms, and a lot of experience, along with the fact that camera makers publicized how their meters were calibrated, photographers came to the realization that additional compensation was needed. You should now always add 1/3 to 1/2 stop from the grey card's suggestion, regardless if you are over or underexposing.
Once the Exposure Compensation has been set for a particular scene or composition, the camera can remain at this setting, even if the light changes. For example, if a cloud passes overhead, the meter may change but you do not need to reset the compensation because the scene did not change. Similarly, if you add a polarizing or other filter, you do not need to re-compensate.
However, if you re-compose the picture and point to a new subject,
- Re-set the compensation to zero
- Re-calibrate with the grey card.
Some people like to set their camera to pure-manual and set the exposure compensation that way. I think this is a mistake and prefer using exposure compensation. If the quality of light changes, the camera will automatically adjust, but in Manual mode, you would have to re-meter.
Dark Subjects = Under Expose
Camera meters are fooled when a dark or light subject fills most of the frame; especially if you are using a center-weighted metering system. The subject's color can affect the meter.
You have probably seen metering errors. Here is a great example from Canon Camera's website, showing how a darker than normal subject can fool the camera meter into over-exposing. Note how the black car is nearly grey. You would see the same problem taking a night or stage photo where most of the scene is black. In each case, the camera would overexpose:
To properly render a dark subject, under-expose from the camera's recommended meter reading.
This is counter-intuitive. Remember, you are compensating for errors made by the camera meter. To 'preserve the black, under-expose'. In this case, you could guess at (-1 2/3) stops or use a grey-card to get the exact value.
For example, with a dark subject, the camera might recommend 1/100 @ f8 (over exposing) while the grey card might recommend a 1 and 2/3's stop under exposure. As before, set the exposure compensation to the grey card's reading -- under exposing to a shorter shutter speed -- then spin the dial the other direction, adding that last +1/3 (or +1/2) stop.
For night landscapes, or dark night-time sky photos, a grey card will not work well. Set the exposure compensation to -2 stops (2EV under exposure) and let the camera meter normally.
Light Subjects = Over Expose
With snow scenes, the camera assumes the subject is likely about 14% (18%) grey and it will try like the devil to make it so. It does this by (accidentally) under-exposing the snow, making it obviously grey. You correct the faulty meter reading by manually "over-exposing." This is also counter-intuitive: On a bright snowy day a good rule of thumb is to over-exposure the meter reading by 1 3/4 to 2.0EV stops. This keeps the snow white. Naturally, you can meter off a grey card to get the exact value.
Scenes where most of the image is white will demand a +2.0 stop over exposure -- provided the white fills most of the scene. You will see this with white or light-colored walls, concrete, etc.. If other subjects occupy space in the same frame, you will need less of a value and it is even more important to meter the card.
Of interest, when deciding to compensate (say for snow), it is the color of the subject that determines what you need to do -- not the brightness of the light. In the middle of the night, the same snow scene needs to be over-exposed the same +2 stops as on a bright or cloudy day.
Backlighting adds some complexity when using a grey card. In this next example, the sun is in the top-center of the frame, the bright sky, the nearly white aircraft, and the nearly-white concrete runway all occupy most of the frame. The camera incorrectly metered, under-exposing the scene (note especially the near silhouetted person, who humorously appears to be the real subject). To compensate, meter with a grey card (or guess at a 1.0 to 1.5 stop over-exposure).
(This photo is a good candidate for an HDR shot, as long as nobody were moving.) If you were actually taking a picture of the woman in front of the plane, move in closer and take her picture, not the planes. Then I would meter the grey-card normally.
Grey Cards and Normal Pictures
Even with seemingly normal landscapes and portraits, the meter is likely off. For example, in a portrait, caucasian skin is easily 1 stop whiter than grey and if a person occupies a significant portion of the viewfinder, this will throw-off the meter. A grey card will give a better meter reading.
Similarly, landscapes with dark foliage, expansive skies, wheat fields, etc., are all out of the norm and a grey card can help set a more appropriate exposure. You would be surprised in how often a better meter reading can be found.
White Balancing
Exposure compensation adjusts for metering errors and for artistic reasons. With digital cameras, there is also a separate problem with "white balancing," also known as color correction. See this ImageLiner article: White Balancing.
With my photographs, I often do the following:
1. Set the White Balance
2. Meter a grey card and compensate as needed
Using a Grey Card in a Post Processing
During a shooting session, where you are taking multiple pictures of your subject, have a model or assistant hold the grey card while you take their photograph in the same quality of light as the subject. In post processing, use the photo editor's brightness and contrast tools to hand-pick the center grey-scales in the image. At the same time, most tools will white-balance. Once set, apply this curve to the remaining photographs from the photo-shoot.
However, setting the grey-scale mid-tone curve in this fashion is an after-the-fact process. Better results, with the the best quality highlight and shadow details, are found when the exposure is set properly during capture.
If you use the in-scene grey-card in post-processing, you may loose some of the shadow details, which were never captured because of exposure problems.
Consider the black car example, above. No amount of post-processing can salvage the glossy paint reflections captured by the over-exposure -- even with an in-scene curve adjustment. And with the under-exposed example, there are simply no details to recover in the shadowed areas because pixel values were never recorded. In this example, even after brightening, the subject will be blocky and ill-formed.
Ideally, if you metered with the grey-card and properly white-balanced, you would see no difference in post processing with this technique.
Using an 18% grey card reading for the actual exposure has been the gold-standard for metering and it has become somewhat of a religious issue. The change in procedure, adding 1/3 to 1/2 stop to the card-reading, is a relatively new idea. You will find conflicting advise on this topic, with most referencing out-of-date sources that do not take into account modern cameras and published specifications (references at the end of this article).
After much studying, and with my own photographs, it seems clear that a grey card was originally designed to solve printing problems - not necessarily to calibrate light meters. But using the card in this fashion is clearly better than allowing the meter to automatically gauge the scene. By making a minor, last minute adjustment of +1/3 to +1/2 stops (due to camera differences), the grey-card is right on the mark. This is an admitted pain and it would be much simpler if we had 13% grey cards.
Before 1980, Kodak recommended an even more nuanced approach: If a light subject, they recommended a half-stop more light than the grey-card's setting, per the recommendations above. But if it were a 'dark' subject, Kodak said to under-exposing a half-stop from the grey-card; this is counter to the current recommendations of increasing a half (third) -stop, compensating for the difference between 18 and 13%). Kodak dropped the idea because it seemed overly complicated but this could accentuate the darker shades.
Then there is this problem. In a high-contrast scene, such as a white building in bright sunlight, where there are deep shadows in the doorways and overhangs, and open, lighter shadows on the walls, where should the grey card be placed? None of the locations give satisfactory results and the contrast may exceed the camera's (film's) ability. In this case, you have to make an artistic decision: If you meter for the dark shadows (exposing for details in the shadows), the highlights will be lost. If you meter in the sunlight, the shadows will fall into dark nothingness. An incident light meter would have the same problems -- where do you place the meter?
Keep in mind, "proper" exposure is not carved in stone, even with a grey card. There are subjective and artistic points to consider. In the high-contrast building example, deep black shadows may be exactly what was intended from an artistic point of view. In this case, meter in the brighter areas. But if you want both shadow details and usable highlights, you have these choices: Wait for less contrasty light, such as in the early morning or add fill-lighting to the shadowed areas or use HDR and manipulate the photo in software.
I often use a grey card, especially in landscapes and it provides a solid starting point for the exposure. Frequently I find the camera's meter is off by 2/3rds of a stop or more and this is easily seen in the final print. By exposing properly, I have less post-processing work on the computer and it is nice to begin with an image or negative that has the best details.
But don't blindly follow the grey card's recommendation. Artistic license sometimes dictates a change from the "proper" exposure. There are times when a picture should be under-exposed, deepening shadows, accentuating light sources, etc. And there are times when a photo might benefit from over-exposures.
Related articles:
ImageLiner: White Balancing
Reference chart: Fractional Shutter Speeds and Apertures
Discussion thread: 18% grey card vs 12-13%
Wikipedia article on Light Meter Calibration
Reflective Light Meters explained
Histograms and Gamma
Calibration Reference:
Kodak 18% Grey Card: 18%
Canon, Nikon, Sekonic: 12.5%
Pentax, Minolta, Kenko: 14%
Humorous Update 2012.01.03:
For the imageLiner Vanguard Tripod Review, I needed to photograph a white sheet of paper and a coin. This is literally the photograph taken at the camera's recommended exposure 320 @ f5.6, with no RAW corrections. Notice how the white paper isn't. I should have used a grey card and forgot to overexpose 2 stops. I laughed when I saw the picture.
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Respected businessman, devoted husband, father, brother. Born Sept. 17, 1917, in Russia. Died Oct. 14, 2011, in Montreal of natural causes, aged 94.
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Morrie immigrated to Canada from Russia with his parents and older siblings at the age of 4. He grew up in Ottawa the middle child of five. His father, a learned man, was the principal of Ottawa's first Talmud Torah Jewish day school.
Morrie's own hunger for education was sidetracked by his father's early death from a heart attack, the Depression, the Second World War and the responsibilities of family and career. His lifelong dream of earning a university degree was only fulfilled seven decades later upon his graduation from Concordia University, at the age of 74, with a bachelor of arts degree. It was one of his proudest moments.
While stationed overseas during the war as a corporal in the Royal Canadian Air Force specializing in radar, Morrie made his first of many lifelong friends. After the war he ran a grocery store in Buckingham, Que., that afforded him the luxury of being the first to own a freezer in the small town.
His brother Jake, who ran several Kiddie Kobbler shoe stores in Ottawa at the time, urged Morrie to move to Montreal and open his own store, which Morrie did in 1954. Properly fitted oxfords and saddle shoes were the style of the times, and they offered a home-fitting service for children to cater to young stay-at-home mothers.
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Respected as an honest and decent businessman, Morrie never judged others harshly. Upon catching one of his employees stealing, rather than fire the young man, Morrie recognized his potential and chose instead to give him another chance. The employee continued working for him until the business closed in 1987.
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