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Originally Posted by Katsunami
(Some people even go as far as pushing every picture to be as bright as possible, to use all the bits without overexposing, and then they darken the picture in the parts where necessary. This is called 'expose to the right', because traditionally, the brightness diagram has the dark values on the left and bright values on the right. This technique can create pictures with a huge dynamic range.)
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Of course, the problem with that is that if some of those highs turn out to be something you need and they're blown out, there's no way to recover them.
IMO, it is usually far better to shoot RAW and avoid getting the values compressed down to 8 bits per subpixel (JPEG) from the original 14. That way, you don't have to worry so much about the exposure.
