On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > Give me a brake, Cotty, I've been photograping for 40-45 years - > digitally > for the last three.. I do know how to meter.
Actually, from reading your post, no, you do not know how to meter at all. Sorry that you've been making photographs all this time and relying on slop to save you. I don't care how long you've been doing things the wrong way -- it doesn't make it right just because you did it for a long time. > I also know several digital > photographers who, just like me, underexposes 0.3-0.5 F-stop ALL THE > TIME > in order to avoid burned out highlights. They also don't know what they're doing. Just because a lot of people do it, that does not make it optimal or correct. > Then comes colour problems, that > has to be dealt with. Colour problems?? From what, from picking the wrong white balance? From neglecting to do a custom white balance? That's just about the easiest thing to do in the world. > Don't tell me you shoot > digital and do not edit. I don't know anybody who does. You do, in fact -- you know me. I don't shoot digital because it's cheap. I shoot digital in a situation where I need to deliver a jpeg virtually out of the camera and to the client. Lately I've been putting the DS2 through a series of tests at high ISOs to see how it'll do for another project I've been working on for quite some time, because it's a strong performer at ISO 1600 at the print size I will require. That will be in a rougher lighting condition and probably I will shoot RAW. But I will not do something ridiculous like just blanket underexpose all of my images, especially because this introduces more noise. In fact, as a "rule", I'm generally overexposing my images right to the point where the white is starting to peak, which is 1/3 to 2/3 of a stop higher exposure than I'd be making on film, because this yields a better-looking, less noisy image. Why don't you do this instead, Jens? Why do you do the opposite? What happened when you tried this? It sounds like you made an assumption about how digital works and are sticking to it without actually LEARNING how to use it properly. Perhaps this is because you've been making photographs for 40-45 years and are stuck in your ways. Myself, I have only been making photographs for 24 years and despite being both a technically trained photographer (not from a night school program, but a full-time commercial photography program) and a working photographic professional, I do not pretend that I always do the right thing or that I automatically know what is best, especially when moving to new equipment and new techniques. Instead, I test and learn. And I am nowhere near done learning how to use my DS2, 16,000 exposures later. I know very well how to use it in one situation, and am learning another. -Aaron -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
