Dark output files - overcoming personal bias?

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

@rvietor

even the best highlight recovery is worse than a properly exposed image (and it’s often a lot of work to do the recovery…). Highlight recovery is nice to have (sometimes you cannot avoid needing it), it’s not something I want as a standard part of my workflow

I 100% agree that you want to avoid highlight recovery. I recommend with digital images to take care of the highlights in the camera as you can do miracles with shadows later in the processing. However, brightening an underexposed picture increases the noise so I suggest exposure as bright as practical without blowing the highlights.