I like the negative reaction of a few of you.

One just made made my ignore list once and for all.

To display any irritation over repeated arguments is now a new thing to avoid on UHH. Sorry but being 'UHH 'Correct is not part of my make-up. I say what I want to say when I want to say it and do not need anyone approval or rejection.

As to 'attention seeker' I just notice that those who claim that or become insulting are trying get the said attention. One did more than the others.

Enjoy your silliness. I most certainly do.

So now that we know what you do, how does that in any way affect what the rest of us do.
You seem to be fixated on a few irrelevant pieces of the exposure puzzle, such as sensor performance and what format you shoot.
The triangle by any other name is still the TRIANGLE!!
All that matters is if our pics come out the way we want them to. Everything else is irrelevant except to the most jaded nerd that will insist those things are somehow important. They are only important to them!
For God's sake, just..........

LEARN TO CHIMP.

SS

I do not know about you but I am really getting tired of endless arguments on 'how to expose' anything.

First off exposure of anything depends on your vision, intent and eventual client demand. This determine what is important (or not) when you first create a composition and then expose the damned thing in order to create a capture you can start working with.

Second, it depends on your camera capabilities as far as the sensor goes. Large pixels have a tendency to create a more accurate color but will lack in details. This influences the exposure, like it or not.

Third you have the file format. You do not expose the same way depending on you output choice. A JPG has severe limitations that may force the use of bracketing in order to capture high contrast scene. If you use raw, you really need to be 'exposed' to extremes to need to bracket to capture a scene full luminosity.

Fourth you have PP. Regardless of the above I am not aware of any capture that is so good that it does not need any post processing.

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Personally when I shoot something:
- I expose for what I need, I expose that correctly first and foremost. I basically do not give a hoot about the surroundings, sorry.
- I shoot raw, JPG is good or better for you? Fine, I will not ague. JPG is not good for me, that's it. raw exposure is a training all by itself.
- I plan for PP meaning that I do not shoot 'straight'. My white balance is 'UniWB' and I am apparently over exposed if one just corrects the WB and creates a JPG that is simply unacceptable.

Something you must remember: You are the one responsible for your choices, not the camera, not the manufacturer engineer when you use auto anything. YOU make the choices to be on auto so... No excuse (This goes for focusing too, incidentally).

Being responsible means you must learn your camera enough to pull the most out of it. If you do not and stick to lesser default? Your problem, no one else.

You want to argue about 'good exposure' or bad one? If you do not have the full information on intent your chances of being wrong is near 99%.

I do not know about you but I am really getting tired of endless arguments on 'how to expose' anything.

First off exposure of anything depends on your vision, intent and eventual client demand. This determine what is important (or not) when you first create a composition and then expose the damned thing in order to create a capture you can start working with.

Second, it depends on your camera capabilities as far as the sensor goes. Large pixels have a tendency to create a more accurate color but will lack in details. This influences the exposure, like it or not.

Third you have the file format. You do not expose the same way depending on you output choice. A JPG has severe limitations that may force the use of bracketing in order to capture high contrast scene. If you use raw, you really need to be 'exposed' to extremes to need to bracket to capture a scene full luminosity.

Fourth you have PP. Regardless of the above I am not aware of any capture that is so good that it does not need any post processing.

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Personally when I shoot something:
- I expose for what I need, I expose that correctly first and foremost. I basically do not give a hoot about the surroundings, sorry.
- I shoot raw, JPG is good or better for you? Fine, I will not ague. JPG is not good for me, that's it. raw exposure is a training all by itself.
- I plan for PP meaning that I do not shoot 'straight'. My white balance is 'UniWB' and I am apparently over exposed if one just corrects the WB and creates a JPG that is simply unacceptable.

Something you must remember: You are the one responsible for your choices, not the camera, not the manufacturer engineer when you use auto anything. YOU make the choices to be on auto so... No excuse (This goes for focusing too, incidentally).

Being responsible means you must learn your camera enough to pull the most out of it. If you do not and stick to lesser default? Your problem, no one else.

You want to argue about 'good exposure' or bad one? If you do not have the full information on intent your chances of being wrong is near 99%.

Martin, it could be argued convincingly that a novice has greater need to shoot RAW than does a pro because a RAW file will allow more opportunity to rectify the mistakes a novice is more prone to make.

Nevertheless, I advocate shooting in both RAW and jpeg. I still do. My Sony cameras have excellent range and process a pretty decent jpeg in most cases, so I usually use the camera's jpeg for social media or other simple sharing. But I like to have the RAW to manipulate as I see fit, too. In fact, I lament that after I bought my first DSLR some years ago, I started out shooting in jpeg only until a good friend convinced me to shoot both. I have some really nice shots from those first few months, but not as nice as they could be with a little tweak. I've worked a couple of them in Lightroom and they came out very nice, but not as nice as a RAW file could have. So I recommend shooting in both formats, and filing away the RAW for potential use later. Besides, you never know when you might get that once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Nice shots, btw.