You should also be monitoring the in camera histogram if you can - making
sure you aren't blowing out that particular highlight color R, G or B ie the
specific curve is not cut off on the RH side.
If you can't monitor the histogram (I don't remember what camera body you're
shooting with) continue to go for slightly underexposed, cause once the
highlights are blown out you've lost any data in that area while you can
recover modestly under exposed features.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO: Daffy Day
Hmm. I guess I'm using the wrong exposure mode, but I always seem to get
severely blown highlights when I try to shoot them. The last time I tried,
I set exposure compensation at -1 and /still/ managed to get some blown
highlights.
I may have had it set to spot metering.
-- Walt
On 3/18/2012 8:11 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
No secret here. I shoot RAW with the K-5 in multi-point exposure mode. I
think I had it set to +0.3 exposure comp, then some minor tweaking in
conversion.
Paul
On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
On 3/18/2012 3:36 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
The first daffodil bloomed today. Earliest by at least ten days for my
20 years in Michigan, and within a day of the earliest I ever saw them
in New Jersey. After hundreds of daffodil pics, tried for a bit of a
different look here. Had the DA* 60-250 mounted, so I used it. f11, IS)
400, 1/250th, 250 mm.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15378457
Paul, I don't know how you do it.
I have the hardest time trying to get a decent exposure on yellow
daffodils.
What's the big secret?
-- Walt
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