How do I into digital photography exposure? Someone said expose

It's easier to adjust your dark shit as opposed to your bright shit, so if clouds or waves or white stuff is blown the fuck out, fix it in camera even if it means making everything else really dark,

>>3127651
So basically like I posted? Just wasn't sure if I understood. Also white balance in camera. Leave it on auto or change it for every situation?

>>3127658
yeah you want the bright part to be properly exposed in camera. the dark part can be super dark.

then in post you can reduce shadows and the dark part will look normal.

if you do it the other way around the highlights will be fked beyond repair

>>3127658
Shoot in RAW and leave the AWB ( auto white balance )

>>3127650
you have two competing interests

-you don't want the hightights to blow out
-you don't want the dark areas to be noisy

you protect the highlights by underexposing, you clean the darks by overexposing and crushing in post. you have to look at your scene and decide what parts are important to you to judge the exposure.

>>3127673
Fuuuuucccckkkk this fucks me up. What would you do for the situation I posted first.

>>3127689
Go for the blue sky. You can't easily fix a blown the fuck out white sky.