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How often should you over expose when taking photographs?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Nardal

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The question is probably more correctly asked as Why or when would you overexpose. It's not a time-based or frequency thing like changing your engine oil.

The following is given with the understanding that over exposure means deliberately exposing more than what the camera meter is suggesting. It does not relate to film that is so badly over exposed that it causes image wash out. On that basis, I will say you over expose when:

a) bracketing (one can choose to only over expose as opposed to doing both)
b) you know the subject lighting requires it (e.g. a subject with strong backlighting)
c) you wish to bring out shadow detail and you will compensate for the over exposure during film development
d) there is a strong point source of light that will cause normal exposure to render the rest of the picture very dark, and the nature of the light source is naturally very bright. Although similar to b) I'm thinking more along the lines of a sunrise/sunset or a person who is arc welding.

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