Spot meter or not?

[stevet1]

I was reading an article last night and the author recommended that you spot meter off the brightest parts of your scene and then adding 1 to 2 stops of positive exposure compensation.

I think that 's designed to lift the shadows and avoid what might turn out to be a silhouette.

That seems to me like an awful lot of effort.

Any opinions?

Steve Thomas

[kvbarkley]

Sounds like a weird way to "expose to the right", which might have been necessary at the dawn of the digital age, but is no longer really required.

[kvbarkley]

I really trust Ctein:

https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/10/expose-to-the-right-is-a-b...