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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 495593" data-attributes="member: 6277"><p>Spot metering is the most dangerous mode. If you meter on the wrong spot then the entire shot is off. The only way I use it is if I am metering on a Grey Card. For normal everyday shooting I tend to use center weighted. For landscape i bounce between Matrix and Center Weighted. Recently my local mentor has been teaching me to expose for the sky and just make sure I have just a sliver of space in the histogram on the left. This may look dark in the shot but as long as you have that space you know you have shadow detail that can be brought up in post. Blown out highlight can never be fixed. Since I moved to this style I have cut my post processing in half. All the ones in Zion have very little post processing. Most were done in Lightroom only and surprisingly not many of them needed any help from Nik tools.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 495593, member: 6277"] Spot metering is the most dangerous mode. If you meter on the wrong spot then the entire shot is off. The only way I use it is if I am metering on a Grey Card. For normal everyday shooting I tend to use center weighted. For landscape i bounce between Matrix and Center Weighted. Recently my local mentor has been teaching me to expose for the sky and just make sure I have just a sliver of space in the histogram on the left. This may look dark in the shot but as long as you have that space you know you have shadow detail that can be brought up in post. Blown out highlight can never be fixed. Since I moved to this style I have cut my post processing in half. All the ones in Zion have very little post processing. Most were done in Lightroom only and surprisingly not many of them needed any help from Nik tools. [/QUOTE]
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