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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 346358" data-attributes="member: 8705">Ok so I'm a bit lazy and modern technology doesn't punish enough for my sloppy behaviour. With my D800 I get reasonable pictures, but I often feel that I'm leaving something on the table. My main crimes are:1. Auto white balance rather than using the grey card. I shoot raw and adjust to eye in Lightroom, but I often feel I could do with an honest starting point.2. My tripod spends too much time in the car. The auto ISO set at 2x focal length returns pretty sharp pictures and the higher ISO on modern sensors does not punish me for it.3. I don't use my colour checker to set profiles as often as I should.4. I don't use ND grads to balance the high contrast scenes and meter for the best exposure. The dynamic range of my camera allows me to recover too much in the highlights and shadows.Points 1-3 are a quick fix, I just need to use them. Point 4 will take a little more practice. I've currently got a Sekonic 478DR incident meter mainly for flash, but it's not ideal for landscape. I've borrowed a 758DR to try the spot meter. I can then measure the mid tones and highlights, select the correct ND grad and then push the whole scene to the right for a good exposure. I'm going to compare a couple of things. Firstly, how the spot meter on my D800 compares the the 758. I know the 758 is 1 degree, but how much do the numbers vary. If the answer is that the 758 is a lot more accurate I may get one.The second thing to compare is the filters. I currently use Cokin P series. I want to see what impact they have on image quality as they are not the most expensive on the market. I may ultimately need to look at the Lee filters, but I'll check the Cokins first.  Has anybody compared both?Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD</blockquote>

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