Re:Photography Composition
by alkonaut on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:07AM
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A modern high res camera does allow for more mistakes though. A good photographer doesn't under- or overexpose 2 stops. I do. A good photographer doesn't so often realize that the good bit of the image is actually 1/5th of it, in the corner. I do.
So I crop 1/5 of the image and boost the exposure 2stops. If I do that with a camera just a few years old, the result is terrible.
Now obviously, if the image is bad or completely uninteresting to begin with then no technological thing is going to help. But it's nice crutches for beginners. After I cropped my image to 1/5, I learned what I should have done. In the past, that was a really expensive lesson (the photo was ruined). Now I get the lesson AND the photo.
Re:Photography Composition
by elhudy on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:30AM
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I underexpose two stops on occasion if the highlights are too blown out and I want that detail - it's really easy to bring the shadows back up in lightroom.
So I crop 1/5 of the image and boost the exposure 2stops. If I do that with a camera just a few years old, the result is terrible.
Now obviously, if the image is bad or completely uninteresting to begin with then no technological thing is going to help. But it's nice crutches for beginners. After I cropped my image to 1/5, I learned what I should have done. In the past, that was a really expensive lesson (the photo was ruined). Now I get the lesson AND the photo.