rmalarz wrote:
Linda gave an excellent reply. I'll temper that with her approach works for portrait type photos. For street, it's entirely different, as your subjects are not prone to pose for you. There again, testing will give you a basic setting to render the entire scene at an approvable level.
--Bob
For street I used an old technique, maybe because I am old. Take a test reading off your hand, front and back, to determine the best average exposure. This has worked for me.