I find it easier with digital to just forget auto anything. I shoot
everything in manual mode these days. I take an initial meter reading,
take a test shot, check the histogram and do a minor adjustment to that
if necessary. Then I just hold that exposure and chimp occasionally
until one of the histograms tells me it's time to change exposure again.
When processing the raw files in ACR I select whatever looks to be
taken at the same exposure and lighting, load into ACR, make exposure,
white balance and other adjustments to one image, synchronize those
adjustments across all the selected images, briefly view each image to
be sure I've gotten all of them right and then save and move on to the
next batch.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I know very well about the problem after using digital camera for years. I
>> have lost the ability to get accurate exposure, I even forgot to check the
>> exposure values before making the shoot or doing exposure compensation based
>> on the scene. May be there are just too much settings to worry about or I
>> have rely too much on the RAW files, I miss the simple OM age.
>
> I was fighting with this over the weekend as I was shooting some
> sunset clouds. As it turns out I got pretty good exposures, but I was
> reviewing the session in my mind afterwards and have decided to begin
> using the bracketing feature on my E-3. This is a feature I have
> never used on a digital camera and I haven't shot brackets since my
> last roll of Velvia. But typically I am finding in these situations
> that I have been trying different exposure methods and shooting
> multiples, which amounts to the same thing as bracketing without using
> the camera smarts provided for it.
>
> I just hope that bracketing works in conjunction with AEL.
>
> This should work in landscape photography. I don't think I will use
> bracketing much for those "people pictures"!
>
> Joel W.
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