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This must explain why I always feel like I need to crank up the exposure in lightroom on sunny day photos. I'll have to set it to full manual to sunny 16 and s
by rrauenza 4y ago
This must explain why I always feel like I need to crank up the exposure in lightroom on sunny day photos. I'll have to set it to full manual to sunny 16 and see what difference it makes.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoThe line that caught my eye: your camera is being tricked into metering reflected light which, in bright sunlight, causes it to read the scene incorrectly because of harsh highlights and shadows… Effectively: Try to override clashing inputs by using a reasonable average setting. Seems like I could (and probably do) apply that in other venues: cooking, music, personnel management, etc.
- hug 4y agoThe sunny 16 (and overcast 8) rule is an easy way to remember what the values are, and it's not really an average: The incident light on a scene on a cloudless day when the sun is directly overhead doesn't change. The average reflectance of the scene changes, but in photography you mostly don't care about the average reflectance, you care about the incident light.
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- asdff 4y agoThis is better actually. You want to have as little blown out as possible because you can always crank up shadows in post. Whereas if you overexpose the sky for example, there is no information there for you to pull down because its been blown out.