Comments on: Is Photographing at a Road-Kill Cafe (or at any bird feeder) Cheating? Grackles Displaying at Sunset. And Getting the Right Exposure for Silhouettes (with RawDigger help!) https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/22/is-photographing-at-a-road-kill-cafe-or-at-any-bird-feeder-cheating-grackles-displaying-at-sunset-and-getting-the-right-exposure-for-silhouettes-with-rawdigger-help/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:39:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/22/is-photographing-at-a-road-kill-cafe-or-at-any-bird-feeder-cheating-grackles-displaying-at-sunset-and-getting-the-right-exposure-for-silhouettes-with-rawdigger-help/comment-page-1/#comment-1818142 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:13:10 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=72343#comment-1818142 In reply to Everett Gauthier.

Everett, Thanks for following up.

Several things:

1-Most of the histograms that you might be looking at are not very accurate at the highlight end.

2- When checking the raw file in Photoshop (or LR) put the cursor on the brightest WHITEs and check the RGB values. If there are no spots with values of 255, then the image is technically not over-exposed.

3- The very best way to evaluate a raw file is with RawDigger.

Assuming that you are actually and consistently over-exposing the highlights, you need to learn to make better exposures.

What system are you using?

with love, artie

]]> By: Everett Gauthier https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/22/is-photographing-at-a-road-kill-cafe-or-at-any-bird-feeder-cheating-grackles-displaying-at-sunset-and-getting-the-right-exposure-for-silhouettes-with-rawdigger-help/comment-page-1/#comment-1818021 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:51:27 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=72343#comment-1818021 Looking at the Histogram. Any time I see whites touching the far right I know from experience The whites will be blown out & I will loose detail.

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