I've skimmed this thread with much amusement and more than a little confusion (about all the technobabble).
Here's the thing: everything is a compromise. Especially with exposure. There's always going to be something in a frame that's over or under exposed. So ya gotta work with it in processing (like St. Ansel when he printed). While ascertaining the best exposure is laudable it's a near impossible task. Which is why this obsession with histograms and perfection makes me scratch my head. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Rob Studdert <[email protected]> Sent: May 23, 2013 5/23/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks) On 23 May 2013 17:44, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > You can spend ages trying to calculate the perfect exposure. Using incident > and spot meters. Chimping the histogram and exposing to the right. Or, > you could get pretty close to the right exposure, guessing as well as you can > on your camera, then bracket the exposure and choose the best one afterwards. > Or, if you're very ambitious, bracket, then use HDR software to improve on > the dynamic range of the camera. (note, I don't mean dialing the tone mapping > up to 11, getting the surreal effect) Larry, you're making a heap of sense here. If I screwed around trying to find the perfect exposure for all of my shots I wouldn't have half the ones that I really like. I like the idea of getting things techically perfect, it's the engineer in me I'm sure but artistically the technical aspects of the shot are generally of far less consequence than the content/subject matter. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
