Larry, You seem to shoot a lot in dark situations. Any auto mode is going to try to get the scene average up to near 18% gray, modulo trying to prevent highlight clipping.
Bruce, An auto setting mode based on a selected sample area (of adjustable size) would be cool. There's a Lightroom forum on the Adobe site somewhere ... I have the address at home, not here. That would be a good feature request. In practice, I almost never use the auto mode at all. Most of the time, I can rough in adjustment for most of an entire session with two/three clicks in the Quick Develop panel before I even open a single image in the Develop module. I only click auto now and then, normally, to see what LR thinks of my exposures. Most of the time it doesn't change the photo enough to even notice what it did without looking at the sliders. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 2012, at 13:50, Tim Bray wrote: >> >>> Just been using it for a couple days, but the new 2012 process, uh... >>> makes my pictures look better. >> >> I've been struggling with one issue - sometimes I'll hit the "auto" button >> in the TONE box to get my exposure into the ballpark before fiddling. >> >> With LR3 it was always pretty darned close. >> >> With LR4 I get consistently at least a couple of stops too dark - like the >> only thing it's doing is throwing the entire exposure to the left to >> preserve the highlights. >> >> Anyone else see that when they hit that "auto" button? > > I'm still on LR3, but the behavior that I consistently get is that when I hit > auto, it'll crank the brightness too high, and I'll have to drop the > brightness to make things more reasonable. > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
