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>>176093 Don't use an incident meter with velvia. You need to meter for highlights, and an incident meter makes that very difficult. That applies to pretty much any slide film.
A spot meter works the best, but if that's not available any reflected meter should work. Just know the angle of incidence of the meter.
Meter for the brightest part of the scene that you want to maintain detail then overexpose by 1-1.5 stops.
Another option, when using a center weighted meter or an incident meter with a wide angle of incidence is to meter then scene then underexpose by 0.5-1 stops. It's fairly dependent on the contrast range, but generally velvia handles underexposure pretty well so try to err in that direction.
As far as scanning, get drum scans. Barring that, a good negative scanner capable of doing multiple passes to build up shadow detail can help. Slides with a lot of shadow detail are hard to scan on cheap scanners.
For lighting, I like bright, contrasty light. Evenings with lots of color are good. I just pick subjects that work well with high contrast. Velvia also looks good on cloudy days if you find a subject that can handle soft light and not look like mud.
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