Few tips for the compensation that I use.
– when the plane is starting and still has some ground/wood/installations etc. in the background, I have my EC simply set to something reasonable, that I measure in advance. Most often just 0, but it’s good to make some test picture once every hour to verify that your settings follow what’s going on in the air
– once it gets airborne, I quickly turn the dial right, to add some exposure (so the bright sky doesn’t make the picture darker)
– when the plane is bright white, I turn it a bit left at the very beginning, so it doesn’t get overexposed in the first place
– when it’s dark – the opposite
Please note that all the above is valid for the central-weighted metering. If you use spot or central 9% metering (and you’re good at it :mrgreen:, which is the tricky part) it’s mostly not neccessary.
Of course it’s always better to try to do your best in the field and as few as possible in the post-processing 😉 However to know how to play the RAW game is sometimes handy. You can for example usually recover quite a lot of details from the blown up areas, that the camera shows as the “blinking white”.
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