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Originally Posted by Christine
Better to be under exposed than over.All my cams are set to under expose by one third.It is easier to up the contrast in the editing prog,than try to sort out out overblown highlights.
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There is a very big school of thought that you should 'expose to the Right' to get the best Dynamic Range. I saw a thread on this subject a while ago and it certainly seems as if most Pro's follow this rule. Since I have been doing this I get much better results esp. with bird photography. What you should be aiming for is to expose to the right as much as possible (without blowing the highlights of important features of course). Shooting to the right is done to make sure that you capture the most data you can for an image. 1/2 the available data is in the far right stop of the histogram.
If you do a Google on 'Expose to the right' you will see lots of hits on the subject. The following link has a very useful table on the subject.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu...se-right.shtml