Expose V-LOG for landscapes (no skin tones)

[@yan_berthemy_photography]

Hi there, I am creating this topic because I am having some difficulties in exposing landscapes with V-LOG on my GH5, I do know how to expose skin tones, it's between 42 for really caucasian skins and 55 for really white skins, I use 18% middle grey at 42IRE to expose skin and white at 61IRE... but let's talk about landscapes... I don't really know how to proceed, how should I analyze my scene and then... correctly expose it... I never saw any tutorials about that, I've only seen tutorials for exposing your skin... Some people say, keep important object above 30 and do not pass 75IRE or 80IRE to avoid clipping highlights, and some say... 20IRE to 80IRE, I am a bit lost, It's really confusing... need help, thanks.

[Shirozina]

ETTR if you don't want clipped highlights

[@yan_berthemy_photography]

17 minutes ago, Shirozina said:

ETTR if you don't want clipped highlights

ETTR is so bad, I use waveform and false colors...

[Shirozina]

23 minutes ago, @yan_berthemy_photography said:

ETTR is so bad, I use waveform and false colors...

Why is it 'so bad' ?

[Mark Romero 2]

I would be surprised if exposing over 75 IRE would lead to clipping.

With Sony SLOG 2 it is often recommended to expose skin tones at 70IRE.

[@yan_berthemy_photography]

5 hours ago, Mark Romero 2 said:

I would be surprised if exposing over 75 IRE would lead to clipping.

 With Sony SLOG 2 it is often recommended to expose skin tones at 70IRE.

Here I speak about V-LOG... not SLOG.

[webrunner5]

Yeah V-Log is a good 15, 20 points lower on skin tones than Slog 2.

[Rinad Amir]

In my experience try not to squash your mids in waveform GH5 dont worry much about the highlights  it handles well in vlog_L 10bit that is 

In short answer expose halve of stop to the right