Right Now, Go Turn On Your Highlight Warning
Probably the worst thing we could do to our image in-camera would be to let the brightest part of it get so bright that it actually damages the photo. This is called either “blowing out the highlights” or “clipping the highlights,” and what it means is there are areas of your photo that are so bright, there will be no detail there whatsoever. Nuthin’. There will not be any pixels in those areas and if you printed the image, there would be no ink hitting the paper in those areas—it would just be paper. If that sounds bad (and it should), then you need to turn on your camera’s highlight warning (yes, ...
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