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CyMek In reply to MHNation [2010-04-23 05:05:20 +0000 UTC]

My camera is permanently set at EV -0.3, and I usually underexpose a little more than that anyway; I find that the metering system tends to overguess, because overexposed photos look awesome in the midtones. The tradeoff is this: your shots straight from the camera will look kinda flat and have bad saturation. The good news is that when you go back into photoshop every single pixel has some gradation tone left, so you can just use a quick curves to bump the shadows up and leave the highlights less molested.

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MHNation In reply to CyMek [2010-05-19 06:39:59 +0000 UTC]

Hey,
Do you know how to change it on a Canon 40D? Your idea is great and I want a piece of it, but I can't find the auto setting... assuming it is an auto setting? Do you just go auto-focus and manually click down a couple of stops?

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CyMek In reply to MHNation [2010-05-19 17:22:05 +0000 UTC]

The focus is always (almost) manual, but the metering should be manipulable from a menu somewhere- about the extent of my knowledge of Canon digital is that I had to use one every now and then for the paper this last year and I found the menu system to be a giant disaster. But yes, I do shoot in manual exposure as well, it's just that having the exposure values compensated down a little will mean that if I set up the shot for correct exposures based on what I see in the viewfinder they should be .3EV too dark. You could just do the same thing by clicking the dial once too far in the right direction though.

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CyMek In reply to zato-dragon [2010-04-23 05:02:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. ^^ I like to think that plants are just like industrial systems, you just have to get through all the green and stuff first.

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