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I see you are set in your ways so I will not try to convince you but I must say I simply disagree.
Why would you want to? I mean, we all have our own ways of doing things. We can give advice, and that is simply it, just advice. Like all advice, it sometimes helps, but it always doesn't fit the needs of the one your giving it to. It is on the receivers end to decide if he or she wants to take that advice and see if it works for them. You should not feel let down or disgruntle if your advice doesn't work for everyone. I highly appreciate you taking the time to give advice. I really do. But in the end Photography is an art and the cameras are our brushes that we use and how we use these brushes determine our final product and most importantly determine our portraits final outcome. That final image says who made it and speaks for the artist.
I fully understate ETTR, I know why technically this is ideal. But I also know if real life, as I shoot outdoors under what ever lighting the sun gives me. 99% of the time, images are not flat and you will have extremes of both under and over exposer. And if you over expose to high you loose data, now when I say over expose I mean data that has blown out of the right side of the histogram and all information is lost. By dropping 1 exposer this can be compensated for as normally you will have less underexposed image during the daylight. This shifts the image exposure getting more into the histogram and more tonal range.
But, if you can control your lighting, like in a studio environment, using ETTR will insure you images have almost zero noise and the sharpest most detailed images possible. But from my experience this only works in a studio were control the lighting.
Now a little background information on myself. I grew up wanting to be an artist, and I worked hard. Art, Music and Science were and still are my obsessions. Unfortunately my hands went bad. First I lost my ability to draw without sever cramps, then my ability to play music instruments for more then a song or two went as well. I no longer write, I can barely sign my name and its never the same way each time. But took everything I learned from that and use it everyday with photography. I dont make any claims to know everything. And like I stated earlier Photography is an Art. Like all art it is suggestive..
