Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers
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Digital exposure
Compared to film, shooting with a digital camera requires a whole new approach to determining what the optimum exposure should be. With film you tended to underexpose slightly for chrome emulsions (because you didn’t want to risk blowing out the highlights). With negative emulsion film it was considered safer to overexpose as this would ensure you captured more shadow detail and thereby recorded a greater subject tonal range.
When capturing raw images on a digital camera it is best to ...
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