“How to determine the best exposure for a specific photograph with film and digital capture” is the sixth part of Alain Briot’s Aesthetics and Photography series over on the Luminous Landscape website.

“Exposure. The word contains a certain notion of risk and a certain amount of irremediable commitment. Once the exposure has been set on a camera and the subsequent photograph taken there is no way to physically change this exposure. You are done, set and have to live with the consequences. Hopefully the exposure is ?right on? and the photograph holds details everywhere.

But what if the photograph does not hold detail everywhere? What if your calculated exposure isn?t absolutely, 100% correct? What if your calculations were off, what if you made a mistake! Then what? Is there a way out, a way back to a great image despite the fact you could have done better in the field exposure-wise?”

Website: Luminous Landscape - Aesthetics and Photography Part 6