I just recently learned about pushing the histogram to the right in another blog. The explanation makes sense about how the most info in the image is stored in the right side thus giving you the most info to be able to manipulate later. Fine. I get that. But I also read though in Tom Ang's digital photography master class book that you should expose for the highlights in that with digital you can recover a shadow using dodging but you cannot recover anything from a white spot. But are both authors essentially saying the same thing which is "expose for the highlights"? I found myself lowering my exposures to get no blow highlights in the review and then brightening later w/ curves. Also of note, the article says that the histo to the right technique is best or only works when your shooting in RAW.
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