Roger Wesson wrote:
- The best composition or framing (especially for a moving subject
or macro shots) or moment will not have the best exposure.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. There is a 'best' exposure for
any given composition, at least as much as there is one for any other
composition.
I think Wayne means that if you take three shots of the same subject
with three different exposures, inevitably the composition won't be
the same for each (unless it's a static subject and the camera's on a
tripod), and almost inevitably the composition you like best will be
either the under- or over-exposed shot. This makes sense to me - I've
proved this rule to myself empirically many times!
If this is being proposed as something like a corollary of Murphy's law,
sure.
If not, and supposing that one attempts the best exposure first, then it
says that at least 3 shots are necessary to get the best composition and
the first will not be the best. So the point of being sure to only take
one shot is that it will then, as the only composition, be the best
composition, by default rather than quality?
Then perhaps it would be proper to propose a companion to " Rod Planck's
advice, to get the exposure right first time and forget exposure
bracketing.", which would be "Get the composition right the first time
and forget composition bracketing." I propose this tongue in cheek to
highlight my thoughts that bracketing should not often be necessary,
when it is, it may be focus, exposure, composition, lens, film, hoping
for steadiness in camera and/or subject etc., and the really valuable
knowledge is of what to bracket and when.
Unashamedly ignorant of who this Rod person is,
Moose
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