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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 617201" data-attributes="member: 13090">Exposing for the Highlights would darken the image overall, yes... But ETTR doesn't mean exposing for the Highlights, that's a common misconception. ETTR biases the entire histogram to the right, which means the Mid-tones and Shadows get lifted to a significant degree as well. You would then have the option to pull down the Highlights, Mid-tones and Shadows considerably; far more so than if the shot were exposed based on the Highlights. In fact in looking at the histogram of the shot you posted it's clear you used ETTR at least in principle whether you knew it or not, and it's why you were able to recover the Highlight detail like you did. Here's your shot opened in Photoshop. You can see how the histogram is heavily biased to the right in every every channel; that's ETTR:...[ATTACH]252080[/ATTACH]......[ATTACH]252081[/ATTACH]...This shot is a perfect example of why ETTR works....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 617201, member: 13090"] Exposing for the Highlights would darken the image overall, yes... But ETTR doesn't mean exposing for the Highlights, that's a common misconception. ETTR biases the [I]entire[/I] histogram to the right, which means the Mid-tones and Shadows get lifted to a significant degree as well. You would then have the option to pull down the Highlights, Mid-tones and Shadows considerably; far more so than if the shot were exposed based on the Highlights. In fact in looking at the histogram of the shot you posted it's clear you used ETTR at least in principle whether you knew it or not, and it's why you were able to recover the Highlight detail like you did. Here's your shot opened in Photoshop. You can see how the histogram is heavily biased to the right in every every channel; that's ETTR: [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] [ATTACH=CONFIG]252080._xfImport[/ATTACH][COLOR="#FFFFFF"]......[/COLOR][ATTACH=CONFIG]252081._xfImport[/ATTACH] [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] This shot is a [I]perfect[/I] example of why ETTR works. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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