Bruce, But it also says "so that the highlights are at the right of the histogram, just on the verge of clipping," which is almost a definition of ETTR. In any case I though that ETTL will mean that any detail that was in very dark areas will be lost and not recoverable by any means?
*Pete Barlow* On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 11:17, Bruce Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, Pete. > I think it SHOULD read "expose to the left". > From my reading of Aurelien Pierre's blog post on his site (he wrote the > filmic module code), I came away with the impression that filmic does it's > best work on images which are, shall we say, "conservatively" exposed... > i.e. a little under. > That's just my take, anyway. > Cheers, > Bruce Williams > ------------------------------ > Mobile: +61 41 250 6349 > > audio2u.com > brucewilliamsphotography.com > shuttersincpodcast.com > sinelanguagepodcast.com > > e-mail <[email protected]> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/@audio2u> | > LinkedIn <http://au.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-williams/1/318/489> | Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/audio2u> | Soundcloud > <http://www.soundcloud.com/audio2u> | Quora > <https://www.quora.com/profile/Bruce-Williams-5> > ------------------------------ > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Pete Barlow <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 9:51 PM > Subject: [darktable-user] 2.6 Manual > To: <[email protected]> > > > I've been reading through the section on the filmic module - not sure if > these are errors or if I am misunderstanding things: > > Prerequisites - *it says expose the shot "to the right". This implies > under exposing the shot* - surely ETTR implies some over exposure? > > and then - *if the picture preview is very dark on your camera* - on my > camera at least anything with ETTR appears brighter than normal > > *Pete Barlow* > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
