On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I should clarify when i said it works fine for me, i do have to do a fine tune of exposure as well. Dave > > > 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
