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<blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 639971" data-attributes="member: 15302">Here's where I differ from some standard viewpoints about exposure.&nbsp; The guy on that video took a picture of a grayish/brown board with a dark background.&nbsp; There was nothing white in the photograph, but he added exposure to &quot;fill up the histogram.&quot;I have the same bias in post but have started questioning my behavior.&nbsp; I adjust levels so that the brightest point in the photograph is peak white and the lowest is darkest black, even if there's NOTHING in the actual shot that is total white or total black.&nbsp; It does make the shot look better, but not necessarily realistic.Now consider this: you do all of your post processing to make the histogram go edge-to-edge, but then you decide to crop.&nbsp; Now on the cropped shot, your histogram isn't filling the box any more.&nbsp; Maybe you cropped out the brightest or darkest part of the pic.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you re-adjust levels so the cropped shot covers all black to all white?Later in the weekend I'll try to post some example shots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blade Canyon, post: 639971, member: 15302"] Here's where I differ from some standard viewpoints about exposure. The guy on that video took a picture of a grayish/brown board with a dark background. There was nothing white in the photograph, but he added exposure to "fill up the histogram." I have the same bias in post but have started questioning my behavior. I adjust levels so that the brightest point in the photograph is peak white and the lowest is darkest black, even if there's NOTHING in the actual shot that is total white or total black. It does make the shot look better, but not necessarily realistic. Now consider this: you do all of your post processing to make the histogram go edge-to-edge, but then you decide to crop. Now on the cropped shot, your histogram isn't filling the box any more. Maybe you cropped out the brightest or darkest part of the pic. Do you re-adjust levels so the cropped shot covers all black to all white? Later in the weekend I'll try to post some example shots. [/QUOTE]

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