Here is my philosophy. If the light is even it will be hard to do something wrong, matrix metering should take care of exposure well and will capture all the detail as that is what matrix metering does best, it is easy to make corrections in Photoshop using levels. If the light is not even, make it even using flash, graduated filter or collapsible reflector/diffuser. If you don't have any control over the light then you worry about exposure and what part of the picture you will lose but there is a good chance that the picture will not be so good because of too high contrast of the scene you are trying to capture. There are some exclusions to this but in 99% of cases it works fine for me, especially because I shoot in raw format and know how to use shadow/highlight detail tool in Photoshop. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > Hi! > > > So what, you captured all the details, just use Photoshop and make the door > > white or black. :) > > May I interject... Thank you. > > Correct exposure is about saving information, the information provided > by the light. If you misexposed, you lost some information forever. No > PhotoShop can get it to you if it hasn't been recorded... > > Hence correct exposure does matter. May be not in the case of a door though > :). > > -- > Boris >
