A while back I started setting the camera profile before doing anything else. It seemed to make a difference as to how "auto" rendered images. I don't know if that's true or if it is my imagination. Sometimes workflow is guided as much by superstition as by fact.
gs George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
