justindh1
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The reason grey works better is that most light meters try to average out the darkest and lightest tones to a middle grey, 18% grey. This allows the tonal values to be correctly shown with having a even amount of dark and light tones. When there isn't a wide variety of tones for the camera meter to average out? The camera averages them out anyway to achieve 18% grey which is middle grey. This off sets some of the tonal values and you won't have a correctly representation of the object your trying to capture.
http://www.photography.ca/phototips/meter.html
http://www.photography.ca/phototips/meter.html