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Subject: Re: [OM] Be careful where you sit...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:50:08 -0500
They are definitely on the over side but not something that was readily 
discernible looking at the histogram.  The histogram on most shows a 
mostly empty area on the upper two fifths of the graph but with a thin 
red line running along the base line and popping up as a little pip at 
the end indicating what I interpreted as minor hot spots in the red. 
Well, it's more than minor.  You may reasonably conclude that the image 
background is overexposed but what you see is about what I saw with my 
eyes and that was my guide doing the post-processing.

Chuck Norcutt


Ken Norton wrote:
> This discussion about inverse-square and so on, is wonderful and everything
> and we might even be able to improve our photography in some manner, but all
> it takes is one scientist-wannabe here on the list quoting from Einstein's
> Theory of Relativity to throw our conclusions off.
> I agree that this must be a "5D" issue as it works just fine on my Olympus
> equipment.
> 
> Oh, and back to Chuck's original issue--if he is having to pull back the
> exposure to keep the faces from burning out, then the exposure is actually
> on the "over" side.  In looking at his posted images, I'd suggest that the
> exposures really are a bit on the hot side and the background, as pretty as
> it is, is actually too bright.  A "proper" exposure, as a general rule, is
> one where the skin is about one-stop brighter than mid-tone. What Chuck is
> doing is exposing for the shadows and compressing the highlights to keep the
> skin from blowing out.
> 
> AG
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