I wish someone had taught me this in my first few years of photography because it would have saved me a lot of time.
3 secrets to better exposure in your photos.
You can go further with these concepts by coming to one of my next Shadow Hackers live workshop and you can also learn everything about Zones and exposure in my Exposed workshop.
Why this is way better than ETTR.
If you watch e my video on why Expose to the right is WRONG, this probably makes even more sense. It does the opposite. It lets you focus on the shadow where you should be and in doing so you’ll get more drama and stop over-exposing.
Does exposure even matter today?
It’s tempting to think this is not that important. Heck with packs like my natural HDR presets it’s honestly astounding how much exposure is in today’s RAW files.
But I promise. Doing exposure right changes your whole process. You will see more shadow and by extension light. You will learn to create drama and be the director of your photos and your in-camera and post-production work will improve really fast.
Why your meter make boring photos.
Is it wrong? Not exactly. l go into this more in my Shadow Hackers classes. But in short, a meter is just trying to give you a moderate exposure that is not clipped It works usually. But it’s not creating drama or nuance. It’s metering for a general-purpose photo and until you start overriding that with manual or just exposure compensation your photo will often be boring.
