FILM Rule : Expose for shadow, dev for highlight , What is the rule for digital camera ?

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

FILM Rule : Expose for shadow, dev for highlight ,

What is the rule for digital camera ? I really want to learn.

 

[Anon Ymous]

Don't clip the highlights.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Shoot RAW
Expose to the right, and
Don't clip the highlights!

 

[petrk]

The mentioned rule aplies to a negative film. Digital sensor should be treated similar to slide film.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

The mentioned rule aplies to a negative film. Digital sensor should be treated similar to slide film.

Now I got it. Thank you very much.

 

[Chan Tran]

Expose for highlight (which is the same as expose to the right) and recover the shadow in post.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Expose for highlight (which is the same as expose to the right) and recover the shadow in post.

I watched a youtube vİdeo , ETTR. If I do ETTR .................. FORGET IT. IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU APPLY CURVES AFTER ETTR. THATS IT.

 

[Chan Tran]

I watched a youtube vİdeo , ETTR. If I do ETTR .................. FORGET IT. IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU APPLY CURVES AFTER ETTR. THATS IT.

You shoot raw. Whatever curves you set you can undo it.

 

[runswithsizzers]

One day, I got to thinking about that often repeated advice, "Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights" and I realized I was not sure about how to take a meter reading to represent the shadows. So I started a thread asking for details about how, exactly, negative film shooters do it. <here>

I thought @Vaughn gave a pretty good answer in the first reply, and several members agreed. But in the 6 pages of replies that followed, there were enough different practices, defintions, and contradictions, I decided the phrase is almost meaningless.

During the 40 years I was shooting slide film, I was usually more interested in exposing for the highlights and letting the shadows fall where they may, so it is hard for me to unlearn that when shooting b&w negative film.

Because my digital cameras offer instant feedback, and histograms, and a generous amount of potential to manipulate the RAW files, exposure seems almost trivial compared to film.

 

[wiltw]

Same as shooting color transparency film... Don't overexpose!...Keep the pixels from falling off the right side of the histogram, where nothing can be recovered in postprocessing.
This fundamental concept applies with Expose To The Right (ETTR)...expose so that pixels move as far to the right of the histogram to capture as much shadow detail as possible WITHOUT pixels FALLING OFF of the right side! One has to be cognizant of the fact that ETTR may often have overall brightness which causes 'mid-tone gray' to be recorded lighter than it inherently is; so if you want tonal accuracy, one needs to reduce things so that the mid-tone areas are portrayed as the middle gray in the scale of black-to-white during postprocessing.

 

[Romanko]

Shoot RAW
Expose to the right, and
Don't clip the highlights!

Bracket. A lot.

 

[Cholentpot]

No rules. Don't be afraid of high ISO. Boost when needed. Everything else is the same as any other bit of photography.