Apart from what you and Jim have managed to work out for yourselves, Moose, I
have always found it a rather confusing principle. "Expose to the Right"
implies pushing the histogram to the right, whereas "Expose for the Right" (or
for the shadows, as John H suggests) would be far clearer.
Chris
On 9 Sep 2011, at 05:20, Moose wrote:
> OK, I'll admit to some confusion. The subject is ETTR (Expose To The Right).
> That means, in common usage, pulling
> exposure down (usually negative EV compensation) in order to avoid highlight
> clipping. In ideal ETTR of typical
> subjects, just a few pixels may reach a value of 255 in one or more channels,
> but no pixels, in any channel, would have
> required a higher value, if it were available, but were clipped to 255.
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