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Originally Posted by Katsunami
As a photographer [...] The eye always sees an average of 18% grey in any scene. If a scene is not average, the eye will compensate both brightness and color.
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woah. just woah. You're a photographer and you seriously just said that???
If that were true, you wouldn't have to adjust the EV when taking pictures of 80% snow, because the photos at average exposure would still look exactly the same as our eyes expect it to. But our eyes are not cameras. When I'm outside and I look at a snowy landscape, I see bright white, more bright white, and some grey. If my eyes were averaging to 18% grey, I would just see a big grey landscape. Now, as someone living through my 30th prairie snow-filled winter, I can assure you: there's a lot of white looking stuff out there, it's not 18% grey...