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The idea I was trying to explore in my [URL="http://dpnow.com/forum2/blog.php?b=58"]previous blog update[/URL] was the exposing to the left or to the right of the histogram. The example shots I posted weren't really up to the job as the conditions were slightly flat, so here are two more example shots, one exposed 2/3rds of a stop under the camera meter's 'ideal' setting and one, this time, a third of a stop over. So the difference is one stop.
[URL="http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/17049"][IMG]http://dpnow.com/galleries/data//766/P6140724.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Image 1 (above)
[URL="http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/17048"][IMG]http://dpnow.com/galleries/data//766/P6140722.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Image 2 (above)
Using the camera RAW files, I have 'normalised' these two shots as best I could in Lightroom.
So which was under-exposed and which was over-exposed?
There is a significant difference that you can't see in these web resolution renditions, which I will reveal later :)
[B]UPDATE:[/B] [URL="http://dpnow.com/forum2/blog.php?b=70"]Find out which image was which now[/URL].
To my eye Image 1 has a "richer" colour with the reds in the bricks, blues in the sign and the greens all being a little more saturated.
Image 2 is my prefered image as the colours look that more natural (the nettles compare well to those outside my window in what seems to be similar lighting conditions);)