yep, I would agree auto tone tends to push the exposure. I doubt it’s you, Charles, and I have never heard about a fine-tune for auto tone. Sometimes when I hit auto tone, my response is, “yuck”. I just reset then make my custom adjustments.
Cheers, Christine On Sep 12, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 12, 2014, at 09:03 , Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Eric: >> The Develop options are there to be used; it’s not cheating if you use them, >> but ultimately you should be looking to render your photos in a way that >> realizes the way you, the photographer, envisions the photo. Even if you >> Auto Tone, you can scale back or up on the sliders to customize the Auto >> Tone. Just start moving sliders around to see what you get. This is one >> way to learn about the adjustments. >> > > Is it just me? Seems like any time I hit the "auto tone" button, the first > thing I have to do is back off the exposure by a stop or two. Auto tone > seriously blasts the levels way too high almost every time I use it. It > seems to get the relationships between highlights/shadows/etc pretty well, > but the overall exposure - no good. > > That being said, I've used it a few times to get a photo to a "starting > point" when I'm not sure where to begin - but seriously, each time I click > auto-tone I have to jump for the exposure slider to bring things back to > reality. > > Is there some way that I can fine-tune what auto-tone does? Does it have > anything to do with the fact that I shoot RAW? > > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
