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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 503570" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'll just toss out a few thoughts on Spot and Center Weighted metering and a few other topics germane to our conversation...Nothing wrong with either mode and both will do a good job at keeping your subject properly exposed, which is key of course. The downside (if there is one) is that both modes will do so at the expense of everything else, generally speaking. In the example of the bird on the pole, Spot or CW would have exposed the subject properly but I'm betting the sky would have been blown out. If it didn't blow out the sky, well, then... You're golden. Also, if it did blow out the sky, but you're okay with a blown out sky, and sometimes I am; then again we're golden. If you're NOT okay with it, and it IS happening, then you have a Dynamic Range issue to deal with and the best way I know of to deal with a DR issue in a single frame is to use the principle of ETTR: Expose To The Right. Exposing to the right means increasing overall exposure as much as we can, without blowing out any pixels. That last part is key: absolutely NO blown out pixels. Exposure is then tweaked to perfection during post processing (shooting RAW has a huuuuge advantage here). And, since there is so much more dat0 contained in the highlights than there is in the shadows, it's far easier, and far cleaner (meaning there will be less noise) for the software to decrease a highlight than it is to increase a Shadow. This is one of the huge benefits to shooting RAW and also highlights (ha!) why I think a thorough understanding of how to read and use Histograms is so important.......</blockquote>

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