294 Mastering Exposure in Camera Raw

…Hey gang. This is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now I don't know about you but I spend a lot of my time in Camera Raw.…You may spend more of your time in Lightroom.…But either way, there's a development setting that's more…mysterious than all of the others and that's exposure.…Because is it a highlight control? Is it a gamma control?…Does it move the entire histogram around?…Does it spread it out? What?…Which is why I thought today would be a perfect opportunity to get to the bottom…of things and master exposure for once and for all.…

And along the way we're going to take this very…dark photograph here and we're going to bring out all…of the brightness as well as the raw, rugged,…handsomeness, that is fellow Lynda.com author James Williamson here.…Let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, let's get down with those exposure controls in Camera raw.…I'm going to…start things off by going up to the File menu and choosing Open a Smart Object.…Just so I can take this DNG file that…I've got here, as captured incidentally by Jacob Cunningham.…