Second guessing yourself is the worst thing you can do in my experience. David Savage wrote: > G'day All, > > Last night I went out to dinner with a bunch of local photogs and we > were talking about the differences/advantages/disadvantages between > film & digital. The discussion got around to the subject of chimping. > > One of the guys is a long time working pro, He shares a studio with 3 > others and they do commercial photography. He related a story from a > recent shoot that I found interesting. > > He was working with one of his partners on a table top product shoot. > They set up the camera (5D) , lights, metered the scene & worked out > the lighting ratios together. He started shooting. He went away for a > while & his partner started chimping the shots already taken & came to > the conclusion that based on the histogram the shots were over > exposed, even though he had helped set up the lighting. > > As a result of this chimping -1.5 stops of exposure compensation were > dialed in. The next day the guy I was talking with started the post > processing. And guess what. They were all (200 odd exposures) > underexposed. By 1.5 stops. > > Now his theory was that chimping is a symptom of people: > > a) not trusting their own skill > b) not trusting this new fangled digital technology. > > Personally I think that the guy who was chimping either had the in > camera settings wrong or he doesn't know how to read a histogram. > (I've never met him or seen his work so I can't really make a comment > on his technical acumen.) > > I am a chimper, I do it even when I don't need to & it's a habit I > have been working on breaking for some time. When I was shooting film > I'd take maybe 2 or 3 frames of a subject & move on, but I find myself > in this digital age fooling around with my camera & fiddeling with > exposure settings, Maybe it's just me, but from waht I seen of others > "in the field" I don't think so. > > I found this idea of a correlation between chimping & trust quite > interesting, so I thought I'd throw this out for comment & discussion. > > Cheers, > > Dave > >
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