On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:38, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Ok, I did a little poking at it. > > Basically, with Process 2012 selected, if you click the Auto button in > the Basic panel "Exposure" area on a photo which has more than 5-10% > of the image area at or beyond the white saturation point, Lr4 will do > its best to pull the exposure down so that the whites and highlights > are below the saturation threshold. On any more average scene, it will > render exposure that is quite close to on the mark. > > Tapping the J key in the Develop module will turn on the white and > black saturation clipping indicators ... that will show you whether > Auto is useful for that scene. >
My last batch of photos were taken on and around a frozen snow-covered lake. I guess that explains that. I'm sad to see this behavior, but I can adjust. Thanks for the analysis, Godfrey! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
