beud wrote:
Philber, your pictures show very nice composition but I found that your recent posts tend to be underexposed, if not badly underexposed.
It kind of ruins your otherwise beautiful pictures, maybe you should check your monitor calibration, or simply look at your histogram when adjusting RAW files without taking care of what your eyes see.
I hope my remark is not taken badly, it's just that I had the same issue with my monitor and when I lowered the brightness, the right exposure was back here again.
Beud, there may be a cause or two to what you indicate. Most of my recent shots have been taken wih a NEX in LiveView mode rather than with a 5DII. This could make a difference, though I don't think so. A more important difference IMHO is that Bobu has taught me the importance of shooting before sunup and after sunset, on a tripod obviously. As such, those are dark scenes. Now a DSLR will compensate atomatically for this, and the picture may appear brighter than the actual scene, or one can push the shadows in post and lighten up the shot. I tend not to do this, and enjoy in some cases the advent of darkness, which is emphasized by the conversion to Web format. Such is the case with the last two shots I posted from Trianon.
Obviously you are free to feel otherwise and prefer lighter scenes, and I will keep your comment in mind.