I'm intimately familiar with highlight blinkies on my camera display. The trick is knowing what highlights should be blown out (direct reflections of a strong light source on a mirrored surface) and what highlights can be blown out (areas where there just isn't significant detail).
If you're shooting raw, there's quite a bit of highlight detail that can be recovered in the headroom above the limits of jpeg (if necessary). Shadow detail isn't going to recover as well, and is going to be more prone to noise.
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Date: 2011-01-04 07:15 pm (UTC)If you're shooting raw, there's quite a bit of highlight detail that can be recovered in the headroom above the limits of jpeg (if necessary). Shadow detail isn't going to recover as well, and is going to be more prone to noise.