I mainly chimp to make sure I have an acceltable RGB histogram. Simple reviewing the white/black histogram ignores potentially blown out reds, greens & blues. Almost never chimp for composition.
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT (sort of): Interesting thought. > Good subject. I find that I don't chimp too much. To some degree it > depends on what I am shooting. When shooting weddings and portraits, > I might chimp once in a while, just to verify nothing is grossly > wrong, but tend to trust the skills I have picked up from shooting so > long. But, if shooting some very high contrast scenes, I might chimp > more to verify my thoughts. Anyway, I find chimping to be a tool > much like a handheld lightmeter is a tool - I use it to help > determine tricky lighting. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 9:24:09 AM, you wrote: > > DS> G'day All, > > DS> Last night I went out to dinner with a bunch of local photogs and we > DS> were talking about the differences/advantages/disadvantages between > DS> film & digital. The discussion got around to the subject of chimping. > > DS> One of the guys is a long time working pro, He shares a studio with 3 > DS> others and they do commercial photography. He related a story from a > DS> recent shoot that I found interesting. > > DS> He was working with one of his partners on a table top product shoot. > DS> They set up the camera (5D) , lights, metered the scene & worked out > DS> the lighting ratios together. He started shooting. He went away for a > DS> while & his partner started chimping the shots already taken & came to > DS> the conclusion that based on the histogram the shots were over > DS> exposed, even though he had helped set up the lighting. > > DS> As a result of this chimping -1.5 stops of exposure compensation were > DS> dialed in. The next day the guy I was talking with started the post > DS> processing. And guess what. They were all (200 odd exposures) > DS> underexposed. By 1.5 stops. > > DS> Now his theory was that chimping is a symptom of people: > > DS> a) not trusting their own skill > DS> b) not trusting this new fangled digital technology. > > DS> Personally I think that the guy who was chimping either had the in > DS> camera settings wrong or he doesn't know how to read a histogram. > DS> (I've never met him or seen his work so I can't really make a comment > DS> on his technical acumen.) > > DS> I am a chimper, I do it even when I don't need to & it's a habit I > DS> have been working on breaking for some time. When I was shooting film > DS> I'd take maybe 2 or 3 frames of a subject & move on, but I find myself > DS> in this digital age fooling around with my camera & fiddeling with > DS> exposure settings, Maybe it's just me, but from waht I seen of others > DS> "in the field" I don't think so. > > DS> I found this idea of a correlation between chimping & trust quite > DS> interesting, so I thought I'd throw this out for comment & discussion. > > DS> Cheers, > > DS> Dave -- 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.
