I may be a little slow on the uptake here but I have just stumbled upon something in Lightroom 2 that really tickled me, apparently it was in LR v1 but I completely missed it…oh well. It’s called ‘Match Total Exposures’ and can be found in the ‘Settings’ pull down menu while you have more than one image selected in the filmstrip ‘Develop’ menu. The feature seems to be grayed out other wise.
It seems that that the purpose of this function is to account for camera exposure changes between shots in a series. Suppose you’re shooting in AV mode and there are slight changes in shutter speeds, or your in M mode and you change the aperture, shutter speed or ISO to compensate for light changes etc. By selecting one of the images with a visually ‘good’ exposure in a series of shots Lightroom will attempt to match the exposure of the other images in the selection by adjusting the exposure slider in the Develop module.
It’s frighteningly simple idea and seems to work pretty well. More importantly, it’s a major time saver while wading through hundreds of images.
I wonder what other cool things I’ve missed………
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