By using the in-camera R G B histogram you can monitor the highlights in those channels and adjust exposure to prevent blown out highlights in those channels. Also shooting in RAW and biasing exposure slightly toward under exposure you can perfect exposure in post processing.
-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com >Subject: Exposure techniques > >I’m curious how people go about setting and checking exposure. My early >pentax DSLRs were really bad at metering, so I just got in the habit of always >checking the histogram. Blownout highlights really annoy me. I also ran into >an interesting metering issue with flowers and other saturated colors, in that >the metering isn’t color sensitive so that I’d blow out one or two of the >channels (usually red) while everything else had plenty of lattitude. > > I have gotten to the point that if I’m not shooting action and running up > against the K-1s miserable buffering, I’ll just bracket nominal and under by > a couple of stops for safety, and not having to worry about it. Most of the > time the dynamic range on the later sensors is so good, that running a bit > under on the raw images is no problem at all. > >How do other people deal with this? > > >-- >Larry Colen >l...@red4est.com -- 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.
