Sure. I do this to mitigate the highlights being clipped if the metering isn't accurate. For example, the BRIGHT 6400 is centre-weighted metering--prioritizing the middle area of the frame--and if I happen to point my camera at the "wrong" spot and meter something that's not a good average of light/shadow I might end up with an image that has the highlights blown out and losing information.
I found that underexposing by 1-stop for my style of imagery gives me enough of a buffer where I'm not producing images with the highlights clipped unintentionally. For more controlled environments (studio, night) I'll underexpose by 1/3-stop since I'm primarily using the highlights/light-source to dictate the metering.
Maybe this was too much information but wanted to explain it as best I can. Hope this helps!
Can you elaborate why you use exposure compensation to underexpose on all profiles as a starting point?
Sure. I do this to mitigate the highlights being clipped if the metering isn't accurate. For example, the BRIGHT 6400 is centre-weighted metering--prioritizing the middle area of the frame--and if I happen to point my camera at the "wrong" spot and meter something that's not a good average of light/shadow I might end up with an image that has the highlights blown out and losing information.
I found that underexposing by 1-stop for my style of imagery gives me enough of a buffer where I'm not producing images with the highlights clipped unintentionally. For more controlled environments (studio, night) I'll underexpose by 1/3-stop since I'm primarily using the highlights/light-source to dictate the metering.
Maybe this was too much information but wanted to explain it as best I can. Hope this helps!
That's helpful, thanks! Kind of like a highlight weighted metering.