At http://users.adelphia.net/daoswald/ you can see a few shots I snapped
today in Chinatown, Los Angeles. These were shot as RAW and coerced
into jpegs after a little postprocessing. This was the first time I've
taken exclusively RAW images. After initial RAW processing, I didn't
re-touch them as jpegs, other than to size them down to web-friendly.
Notice the overly-bright sky, and underexposed subjects. I could adjust
the midtones with the Levels tool, but I left them as-is to demonstrate
my point.
The point here is that this seems to be an all too typical result with
DSLR's, at least for me. I can pick and choose; either the subject is
exposed properly (and the sky hopelessly burned out), or the sky is at
least kept within gamut (though still a little bright) resulting in
underexposed midtones.
Aside from underexposing EVERYTHING, and then postprocessing to pull out
shadow detail, is there anything I can do in-camera to improve my
exposures?
Please excuse the boring subjects; I was just snapping away to tinker
with exposure, not really paying attention to finding the one great shot.
Dave
- Burned sky, underexposed subject David Oswald
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