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Exposure Bracketing

Started Oct 2, 2021 | Discussions thread
Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,894
Re: Exposure Bracketing

a_c_skinner wrote:

As in 2/3 stop each way? Even that is very precise for me (but that may confess to a slapdash approach on my part).

Edit, not arguing, this genuninely intrigues me - the whole subject. As a graduate of the Kodachrome years exposure was always deeply trying.

Nope, 2 and 1/3 stops each way, anything less isn't worth the trouble IMO. 2 1/3 stops (arrived at through a bit of trial and error)  works well for adding some extra clean shadow detail and plenty of highlight headroom into the HDR equation. I usually just go with a single RAW exposure, but I will occasionally do the exposure bracketing thing if I want to guarantee sufficient image detail to work with in very high DR scenes.

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