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Comment by yladiz

3 years ago

While it’s true you should in theory expose to the right, it’s realistically a little riskier unless your environment is well controlled or you’re willing to potentially clip some highlights. So for landscapes that you spend a while composing and metering, it makes sense, but for street photography or something where there’s a ton of contrast, I wouldn’t recommend it because you’ll overexpose more often than not and unlike with film, it’s harder (and maybe impossible) to recover detail from highlights.

Since storage is cheap, I’d rather just bracket my shots that need it than expose to the right, reducing the potential of losing a good shot by losing some highlight detail.