Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I "develop' most my pics which I'm tend to under expose just a tad when I shoot them but when I develop them or open them up in raw I then bring them up to the proper level of brightness. Maybe about a third of my shots need to be lightened like this the rest open up right on the money exposure wise but there's a lot of density tweaking anyway with the levels curves. MOST cameras for some reason are set to over expose. >From what everyone says M8's are. I hear Canons are. My Digilux was. Or is. Nikons sure are. My Nikon D200 and D40x is needful of about a minus .7 or a full stop minus setting. .3 just doesn't cut it an any situation. Except of course snow. Mark William Rabiner > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:04:00 +1000 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure > > I am a disciple of Real World Camera Raw as well and just updated to the > CS4 > version too. Continuing that thought by Bob and Lee. Depending on the shot > content of course, but I often find when developing the image in my Raw > convertor, I am increasing the exposure by a third to a half EV to populate > the right side of the histogram. Really you are setting the white clipping > point there. This is where a full tonal range is appropriate. After that I > can look at curves and colour etc. Note also that setting the output colour > space to ProPhoto RGB (and 16 bit of course) gives you the widest possible > range too. Remember that in Raw you are editing the LINEAR data there. Very > different to a destructive edit to a jpg capture, for example. I'm not > suggesting that people who find the routine under-exposure technique > practical and effective are wrong. Only suggesting a technique that can be > tried for some photographs for maximum tonal quality. > > > 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----- > From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Bob W > Sent: Monday, 19 January 2009 01:54 > To: 'Leica Users Group' > Subject: RE: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure > > I have Resnick & Spritzer's book about Lightroom, based on the seminars. > It's very good. > > I originally learned about exposing to the right from Bruce Fraser's book > Real World Camera Raw, which provides a good explanation of why it matters, > but the explanation in Resnick & Spritzer's book is also excellent. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-World-Camera-Adobe-Photoshop/dp/0321580133/ref= > sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232293434&sr=8-3 > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photoshop-Lightroom-Workbook-Workflow-Workslow/dp/02 > 40810678/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232293613&sr=1-1 > > A short version of Bruce Fraser's explanation is available in this pdf: > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/pdfs/linear_gamma.pdf > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf >> Of Leland Deane >> Sent: 18 January 2009 12:48 >> To: lug@leica-users.org >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure >> >> During two of his seminars (the ones I attended), Seth Resnick talked >> about exposure with a digital sensor in mind instead of slide film. >> While relative over exposure is death to film, keeping the histogram >> to the right as much as possible is desirable because you are adding >> 'information' >> digitally that you can work with. Now of course we're not talking >> about gross over exposure, clipping, or poor exposures. But the point >> is well taken that one should try and 'gather' as much digital data as >> possible for post production. >> >> Seth recommended, therefore, setting the exposure compensation in most >> cameras to +1/3 or +2/3 of a stop. I have used this with all my Canons >> and Leicas (digital) with good results. >> >> Lee >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information