Expose to the Right -perfect exposure every time guaranteed

hi there my name is Matt diesel on top I'm a photographer based in Helsinki Finland and in this video I'm going to tell you how you can nail your exposure every time and get constant results if you're new here and you like my content please consider subscribing to my channel and tap the bell also so you won't miss any of my future videos I'll publish a new video every Tuesday have you ever had problems with your exposures sometimes the picture looks too bright and sometimes it looks too dark it has happened to me many times and it's so frustrating and it increases the time in post-processing let me tell you how you can make constant quality with your exposures and that'll reduce your time in post-processing thus leaving more time to make great images in winter and in snow it's hard to make good exposures because everything is white and our cameras don't understand that very well and the images usually come out too dark there is not so much need today for the perfect exposure because the cameras and sensors are so awesome however if you want to squeeze the maximum quality out of your camera and out of your sensor you will want to make sure that your exposures are spot-on the correct exposure is of course subjective but from the image quality point of view there's only one way to expose that is exposed to the right it means exposed as bright as necessary but not too bright there is a way to get constant exposures and nail your exposure every time I'm gonna show it to you with my lumix g9 but this will work on any camera that has the zebra pattern feature the zebra was originally designed for video work but it's also a great feature for talk Rafi the zebra pattern will show you exactly where in the image the brightness reaches a certain level and better yet you can set the level however you like it and this is way better than the so called highlight warning that blinks in the overexposed areas in this I'm going to shoot draw because in my opinion it's the only way but if you want to shoot JPEG you may have to adjust the process a little bit okay let's go to my office and make a small test it's easier to do it inside because we can examine the results right away on a computer okay let's get started if we want to expose as bright as necessary but not too bright it makes sense to set the target to the highlights I want to find a point where I still have details in my highlights and I'm going to use that as my reference point when I go out there and start shooting some real pictures I'm going to look for the brightest part in my image where I still want to preserve details if this doesn't make any sense right now bear with me it'll make sense in a moment let's make a test I'm gonna use this lens cloth as my white target because it has some detail in it what piece of paper would do the same thing but it has less detail so it's harder to evaluate the results the testing is very simple because we are only looking for details in the bright areas if you do this at home make sure your white balance is correct it doesn't have to be exact but it has to be in the ballpark also make sure that your lighting is constant during the whole process okay I'm gonna set zebra now and I'm gonna start at 90% let's see what comes out I'm going to adjust my exposure so that the zebra is just visible in the bright area where the cloth is like soul now let's see how it looks in the light room even without zooming in we can see that there's plenty of detail in the zebra area it looks good but I think we could go a little bit brighter still without losing any detail let's set the zebra at 95% and make another picture I'm going to set my exposure in the same way I did before so that the zebra is just visible in the bright area where the cloth is now how does this look in the light room it's a tad brighter than the previous image like it should but we can still see detail in the bright area when we look at the RGB values we are in the 230 240 range which is perfect the pure white is 255 but anything above 245 is almost white already so the 230 240 range is what we want if we wish to see details when I'm in a real world situation taking pictures out there I'm going to look for the brightest area in my image where I still want to see details and I'm going to set my exposure so that I can see the zebra in that area in that brightest area in my image where I want to preserve details it's important to understand that it's not necessarily the brightest area in the image it's the brightest area where I want to see details ok let's go out and make some real-world images and see how this really works I'm going to shoot some snow-covered cars here and this is a good test to see if I can preserve the highlights without blowing them out I want to see the zebra in the brightest part of the snow and the first area where the zebra is going to show up will be about 235 in RGB value and I can trust it's not blown out even if it may look a bit bright in the viewfinder okay let's take a final look in the light room and see how it is looks looks pretty good and there's nice detail in the snow I'm just going to adjust the tonality so that it looks good to me it looks like I may have to drop the exposure just a bit but that's okay as long as I'm not losing any highlight detail here and I'm not overexposed but you should understand that at the time of the capture the image may look too bright or not the way you want but the idea here is to capture the perfect amount of light and then post-process the image the way we want this is like a two-step process first the capture then the post-processing but of course you should know what you want and when you hit the shutter this may sound like a complex process but it's really not and if I can do it so can you this is one of those things that a modern camera can offer and make your photography better and your technical quality constant I hope you found this useful thanks for watching and I'll see you next time

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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 05 2019