On May 22, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > BTW, I shoot strictly RAW, no +JPEG, WB usually fixed at Cloudy, JPEG > configuration at factory defaults or close to. I stick to a 16-bit > post-processing workflow. I'm a stickler for image quality.
Likewise > > Now elsewhere you have explained that you want to doctor or calibrate > your histogram in aid of calculating exposures for doing ETTR. You > might want to consider that ETTR is considered by many to be no longer > relevant and even harmful. I don't follow the notion anymore myself. > > Have you read this? > > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/10/expose-to-the-right-is-a-bunch-of-bull.html > > Or: http://goo.gl/UFjy3 > > Even doing nothing but RAW shooting I know that once you clip your > highlights, they are gone. Pure white. No recovery possible. Complete > loss of "value". Possibly still okay for showing to your parents. :-) I have always interpreted ETTR as "expose as far to the right as you can WITHOUT CLIPPING ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KEEP. This means that I often end up exposing way below what the light meter tells me that I should. These are exactly the instances when an accurate histogram would be the most useful. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc sent from i4est -- 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.
