Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark this is about M8 exposure firstly. But what is being suggested is filling the right side of the histogram, not chopping off a lot of the highlights. You must increase your exposure sometimes, surely? Shooting snow recently I found this necessary, for example. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can. -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure Actually Bob placing your histogram in that direction of over exposing a slide or digital capture is not an option a photographer happens to have at all and not for any conceivable reason. Once you've lost detail in your highlights their gone. So yes it is in a sense "mindless". As doing so indicates a complete lack of knowledge of what one is doing. And even if in working with negative materials you expose your highlights too far to the top of the curve no amount of under development is going to address the situation. - you have to expose with highlights in mind to you can't just develop for them. Mark William Rabiner > From: Bob W <leica@web-options.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:28:21 -0000 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure > >> Typically when I'm standing next to a person using a DSLR or >> M8 if they look >> at their screen at all it will pop up rally over exposed. >> Same as when I've seen peoples stuff on their laptops. >> Mass over exposing mindlessness. > > What makes you think it's mindless? > > If it looks over-exposed on the screen there's a good chance that they > are exposing to the right of the histogram deliberately, to maximise > the amount of information where it's most useful. Then on the PC you > adjust the tone curve as required to distribute the tonal values as > you wish across the image, making full use of the dynamic range without introducing noise. > > It's no different in principle, and no more or less mindless, than > exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights, which are > perfectly respectable things to do in film photography. > > You should perhaps understand things a little before you start tossing > the insults around, and maybe give your fellow photographers a little > credit for knowing what they're doing. > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information