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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 486999" data-attributes="member: 31330">You can either adjust the exposure on your camera when shooting or adjust it afterwards while post processing. If you adjust the tones so they fill the whole range between darkest and lightest (black and white) there is much more variation which makes the images better. The way you shot or processed them, you ended up with only tones from the shadows up to about the midtones.All I did in Lightroom was look at the histogram, increase the exposure accordingly until it moved to the right side and then set my black and white point to minimal clipping. It's a couple of seconds work and it makes all the difference. I don't know in what mode you shot them but if any auto-mode, try using exposure compensation and set it to -1 or -2 stops. You have to experiment with it to see what gives the best result. In auto-modes, depending the metering it uses, it'll decrease exposure because of the heavily weighed background (white) so you have to work around that by using compensation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 486999, member: 31330"] You can either adjust the exposure on your camera when shooting or adjust it afterwards while post processing. If you adjust the tones so they fill the whole range between darkest and lightest (black and white) there is much more variation which makes the images better. The way you shot or processed them, you ended up with only tones from the shadows up to about the midtones. All I did in Lightroom was look at the histogram, increase the exposure accordingly until it moved to the right side and then set my black and white point to minimal clipping. It's a couple of seconds work and it makes all the difference. I don't know in what mode you shot them but if any auto-mode, try using exposure compensation and set it to -1 or -2 stops. You have to experiment with it to see what gives the best result. In auto-modes, depending the metering it uses, it'll decrease exposure because of the heavily weighed background (white) so you have to work around that by using compensation. [/QUOTE]

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