ETTR Uses and Technique

Jeff Harmon is joined at the round table by Connor Hibbs to talk about exposing to the right (ETTR) as a technique to get the very best image quality possible out of your digital camera

Episode Resources:

Photo Taco: How To ETTR https://phototacopodcast.com/how-to-ettr/
Photo Taco: Metering Explained: https://phototacopodcast.com/metering-explained/
Photo Taco: Spot Metering Gotcha: https://phototacopodcast.com/spot-metering-gotcha/
Photo Taco: Histograms Explained!: https://phototacopodcast.com/histogram-explained/
Photographic Dynamic Range (Bill Claff’s site): http://photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm
Photo Taco: Photographic Dynamic Range: https://phototacopodcast.com/photographic-dynamic-range/

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Introduction
Welcome to the Master Photography Roundtable part of the Master Photography Podcast Network!  You are joined by thousands of photographers listening to this show who are all on the same journey to master their photography.  I am Jeff Harmon, the host for this episode and joining me at the roundtable is portrait photographer phenom Connor Hibbs. How are you Connor?  
Right off the top here I have to brag about the other podcast does with Erica Kay on our network called Portrait Session.  The Portrait Session Podcast was profiled in an fstoppers.com article here in late September 2018 with a lot of praise for helping portrait photographers.  So Congratulations to you and Erica on getting some well deserved recognition for your show. So glad to have you part of the Master Photography team!
Connor, besides adding to the conversation here wherever you want to jump in I also need your help to make sure I don’t dive too deep into the super technical.  Our topic is one that sounds very technical right off the bat with a 4 letter acronym and I could go off the rails so I need you to be the voice of reason and bring back if I go there.
Today we are going to do the discussion we talked about a few episodes back and talk about expose to the right or ETTR technique.  Conner, based on previous discussions I think you and I may seem to be on different sides of this technique where it is something I swear by and you avoid so I am excited to kind of have this discussion because I think we represent the listeners well.
Brief Explanation of ETTR
To start things off I want to as briefly as I can explain what it means to expose to the right.