Expose to the Right -perfect exposure every time guaranteed

In this video I'm going to explain how you can get perfect exposure every time using your camera's zebra pattern.

[myc]

I used to hate post-processing on a computer compared to film photography. And then I realized that is the equivalent to the dark room in film photography so at the end you still have to do post-processing either way or have a lab do it for you. The nice thing with digital photography is you can do it all yourself, without chemicals.

[Tech]

Been a photographer for the past 20 years and a shame to say almost everything In this is new to me sir. Thanks 🙏 May the lord Bless you ( too bad my poor M6 Mark II does not have zebra warnings. But learned some other tips from the video )

[AtyirChaoschant]

For me as a wedding photographer, this will seriously come in handy. Thank you. :)

[sutv]

Well this lesson is a life changer for me. I always would dampen down the exposer when I saw the zebra show up anywhere in the picture. In this lesson when you said "find the brightest area in which you want to still see detail and go by that area with zebra" It all clicked for me when you said that. DA! In that past I set my zebra to 90 percent for JPEG but now I'll do 95. It makes sense to do so. I use now the GH5. Thanks again. Tom in NYC

[kemerthomson]

A very succinct and clear explanation/demonstration of ETTR: one of the best I’ve run into, and very useful. I’m embarrassed to admit that I had purposely ignored ETTR until just recently because I viewed it as a “fad.” Even worse, I have tended to purposely underexpose. My three (LUMIX) cameras all have the same sensor and only now do I realize that this is the better way to minimize noise. Thanks.

[MinEpicMoment]

I really want to know what machine you used to shoot? Because I like this simple color too much. Thank you for your great work.

[JaasonAnthonie]

50 mm is my favourite. Very versatile for portraits, landscape and photos to pull lines and objects out of their context and thus create a new image. Nice video.

[busydadscooking]

Super useful for me to learn! I did not even know my gx85 can do the zebra .. Until now! I am amazed how many features I continue to discover buried in a menu somewhere, Panasonic gives you more than I thought I even need ...

[dantheman]

I don't know why, but the dozen or so scene changes in the first two minutes had me rolling with laughter!

[sue]

Excellent video. I have been ETTR for some time now and it makes a heck of a difference regarding shadows. The shadows can always be darkened down in post-processing with no nasty artefacts, but if don't ETTR, you get noise when brightening the shadows in post-processing. This to me is THE most important result of ETTR. Until next time, happy ETTR.

[Gee-Wizz]

I did find this useful, picked up some great tips. Because I am watching from Australia I was surprised to find that people in Finland took photo's, I thought they all drove rally cars. LOL.

Thank's for your time a great video.

[jakobhovman]

Expose for the Zebras...! Great tutorial of the G9. Ps: I recognize the car: It's a Snowmobile...!

[justinrichardson]

This is an excellent video for an often misunderstood and confusing technique. Well done.

[davidwebb]

thank you very much, Matti! I learned something today from you! Keep up the outstanding work!

[benedictus]

Just bought LUMIX G9 and I have been following your video. It’s been a great help to learn this LUMIX. I have been using Leica M10 and Sony A7RIII. So Your video has been very useful to understand micro4/3 camera. Thank you very much.

[JimiCanRead]

Matti has definitely improved his audio since 2019

[brianwells]

Wow. This was brilliant, I purchased a G9 recently, upgrading from a G7, a different world. I'm new to photography and getting constant acceptable exposure is always an issue, thanks for this video! it has helped immensely, as has your other video's... glad I found this!

[CzechforGary]

Very helpful and well explained, thank you! The surroundings are, despite being in a city, beautiful.

[sebxiou-lfsy]

Just discovered this, thanks. I guess it depends if one is tweaking only Aperture and Shutter-time values or if one incorporates ISO into the equation. I would argue that using the latter is "dangerous" because it introduces a possible quality-degrade into the equation. But I do not think you meant us to rely on ISO. In a sense, this then is half "normal" photography - i.e. expose to avoid blowing the whites (ignoring the blacks which, with high-exposure, will not be lost anyway).

One thing, however, I think for still subjects - eg: not your singer - the traditional HDR three or five images (one at zero exposure compensation; others over and under in a balanced way) works very well, giving maximum flexibility in post.

Interesting and well-explained. Thank you.

[ntartienii]

Thanks for sharing these contents. Is ETTR useful for low light condition photography?