Converting in RAW vs Exposure compensation

9 years 10 months ago #380752 by Remy Hedrick
If you were looking to make a 1 stop under or 1 stop over exposure, is there any difference when doing that with exposure compensation vs ACR? 


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9 years 10 months ago #380761 by Stealthy Ninja
Umm.. if you overexpose with EC you risk forever blowing the highlights I suppose.
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9 years 10 months ago #380783 by garyrhook
Shoot in RAW and adjust in post. You don't need EC.


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9 years 10 months ago #380799 by KCook
I don't bother with 1/3 stop EC.  But I will make a 1/2 stop EC, or greater if the scene needs it.  Then fine tune the exposure in Lightroom.

Kelly Cook

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
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9 years 10 months ago #380890 by Adam Nagle
A  good reason to shoot in RAW


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9 years 10 months ago #381098 by Tim Dordeck
If I need to change or adjust the exposure, I'll just do it in ACR or Lightroom


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9 years 10 months ago - 9 years 10 months ago #381110 by william_cpa
I recommend using EC to increase exposure if you are sure you are not going to blow out background highlights. If there is a lot of white in the main subject causing the meter to under expose, then use EC and get it right in the camera. If you leave it to post you are risking noise in the shadows because raising the exposure levels in post has the same effect as increasing the ISO in the camera.

If the subject is predominantly dark with contrasting lighting causing over exposure, then, of course, dial down the EC and get it right in the camera.
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9 years 10 months ago #381205 by Alan Nunez
Are you talking about bracketing? If so then bracket in camera. I don't use EC as it is easy to accidentally leave it on the wrong setting. I simply use my manual exposure and dial in the over & under shot. If I was shooting interiors and needed to do a bunch of bracketed shots I would use the built in bracketing function in the body,


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9 years 10 months ago #381243 by william_cpa

Alan Nunez wrote: Are you talking about bracketing? If so then bracket in camera. I don't use EC as it is easy to accidentally leave it on the wrong setting. I simply use my manual exposure and dial in the over & under shot. If I was shooting interiors and needed to do a bunch of bracketed shots I would use the built in bracketing function in the body,


And what if you accidentally leave on the built in bracketing function on the body? ;)
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9 years 10 months ago #381256 by KCook

william_cpa wrote:

Alan Nunez wrote: Are you talking about bracketing? If so then bracket in camera. I don't use EC as it is easy to accidentally leave it on the wrong setting. I simply use my manual exposure and dial in the over & under shot. If I was shooting interiors and needed to do a bunch of bracketed shots I would use the built in bracketing function in the body,


And what if you accidentally leave on the built in bracketing function on the body? ;)


I do a fair amount of AE bracketing (lazy photographer).  If the "drive" on my Canon is in Continuous mode, no problem, I will hear the shutter fire off the second shot.  But if the drive is in single frame mode, that can be a real gotcha when you forget the bracketing is turned on.  I wish Canon did not even allow bracketing in single frame mode, but then there are lots of things I wish for.

Kelly

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
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9 years 10 months ago #381335 by Stealthy Ninja
Someone has to say they only shoot manual all the time... who will be first?
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9 years 10 months ago #381361 by garyrhook
Ooh, ooh, me!!

I only shoot manual, all the time.

There, happy?


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9 years 10 months ago #381370 by william_cpa
Somebody called me a couple of years ago wanting to take a class at the school. She asked if we teach how to shoot in manual mode. I guessed that either somebody told her or she read online somewhere that real photographers only shoot in manual. So I asked her what had prompted her to want to learn to shoot in manual. I was very curious to learn where she had picked up this idea. She unleashed a tirade of abuse and hung up the phone so I never found out.

Since then I have had a couple of people walk out of the beginner class at lunch time after them telling me that they 'only shoot in manual' and me asking them why. When people tell me this I am genuinely interested in finding out why they do it but they never seem to have an answer to give me other than getting pissed.

These days, if anyone mentions that they 'always shoot in manual' I change the subject rather hastily.
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9 years 10 months ago #381372 by KCook
Well, we see this on message boards a lot, and the answer is almost always "to be in complete control".

But I only use manual mode for technical projects myself.  Anybody who wants to walk out on me is welcome to do so.

PASkelly

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
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9 years 10 months ago - 9 years 10 months ago #381395 by Stealthy Ninja

KCook wrote: Well, we see this on message boards a lot, and the answer is almost always "to be in complete control".

But I only use manual mode for technical projects myself.  Anybody who wants to walk out on me is welcome to do so.

PASkelly


Yeh that's the reason.  Nothing wrong with auto modes, but once you work out manual it can be addictive.  I even mainly use manual focus now, not because AF is bad, I just like to manually focus.

I shoot in manual a lot because I like the control.  I don't want my SS to go below a certain amount just because my camera has decided 1 second is an appropriate shutter speed (maybe I should look into my camera's auto iso mode...)

However, in certain situations I'll shoot Av or Tv mode.  All depends on what I'm doing.
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