Bakubo you will generally need to go back and forth. Unless you specifically change the order of module execution…exposure happens early in the pipeline…filmic much later and inside the color profiles. no matter what order you complete them in your workflow or turn them off or on they will execute in that order. What @jorismak is saying is that it might be easier to tweak exposure with filmic on as what you view on the screen is the combined effect so if you do it with filmic off taking in to account shadows etc etc just how you like then filmic will change them…so its easier if filmic is already in place to assess your exposure tweaking. The initial exposure is only added as a guess to boost the starting point for filmic. In the past it was not added and people were freaked out about how dark or crushed their images were. Most JPG files have an ev bump and so this simulates this…filmic maps your dark and highlights around the point that you establish for middle tones…so hence the advice to add some exposure to get your mid tones right and then apply filmic…now following that logic even after adjustment filmic might leave you with the need to tweak exposure so just tweak exposure…there is no magic order…in fact I enable the old middle grey slider in filmic and use that so I don’t have to leave the module to tweak it…lower for lighter higher for darker…there are many ways edit but there is no magic effect of the order in which filmic and exposure are added the end calculation is the product of the two…its just a workflow suggestion you may prefer to set you preferences to none and then enable the modules in that order ie exposure and then filmic if that works for you…basically DT is trying to guess and set exposure and then apply filmic. Through experimentation you may find a better starting bump to ev for your camera and if so you can change that but there is going to always be some back and forth with filmic. I believe @jorismak is saying that he now prefers to leave filmic off and set exposure and color calibration and then enable filmic…not as you understood it…usually you will set wb then exposure in a traditional approach so you would do your color cal and then set your exposure and then continue from that base…
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