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Should Proper Zebra Level Look Overexposed in the Monitor?

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Off The Mark Veteran Member • Posts: 6,934
Re: Should Proper Zebra Level Look Overexposed in the Monitor?

NickZ2016 wrote:

What I've learned is outdoors to look at the clouds. The zebras will go away even if you're overexposing the clouds . You want the clouds to have detail and not to be washed out or worse totally disappear.

I tend to agree with Nick's advice above.

The reason for overexposing certain gammas is to reduce noise in the shadows.

The drawbacks are that you are prone to clip your highlights. With film or certain digital codecs, this could be less of a problem, since the highlights will often blow out smoothly (soft roll off). But in digitial codecs, the roll off isn't nearly as nice.

The other issue is that when exposing to the right, you are cramming a lot of what would be midtone detail in to the highlights, and it tends to make the midtones a bit flatter after you reduce the exposure in post.

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