This is a brief excerpt from the Hurlbut Visuals blog
Recently we reviewed how to find the power of your sensor in the darkness of a lens cap, as well as injecting skin tones into your test. In part three, we will test your camera’s latitude. This is one of the most important tests that you can perform because over exposing is a very subjective and personal artistic choice. This test will show you how far you can push the over and under exposing of your camera and what looks good to your eye. I suggest throwing the vector scopes, histograms and the wave forms away. You need to train your eye and not use those devices as crutches.
Taking Your Image to Extremes
Let’s begin with over exposing. This test shows you how it handles the highlights. Set up your grey card and color chart on the same focal plan as your model. Frame a shot that is a medium size frame so that the charts are just in the left and right sides of the frame. There are many ways to light this test. We used a very frontal light source that was very bright so we could start at a high f-stop and then work …
By: Shane
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