There's usually time pressure to get photos from an event back to a client. And usually events involve many photos, often over a hundred.
It would be great if autotone (auto-exposure) could get the exposure in the right ballpark. Sadly, Lightroom's autotone button is almost useless.
In LR 6, autotone would almost invariably produce over-exposure, often with excessive contrast.
I thought that had been improved in LR Classic CC, but autotone has flipped the otherway, with photos typically given 1.5 to 2 stops underexposure and contrast at -20, when 0 is about right.
This is off RAW files with my 5DsR, 6D and M3.
Are there any work-arounds for this? Ideally that I could calibrate the autotone function.
Otherwise its: set exposure for faces, fill shadows, adjust highlights, then set white and black clipping points.
Surely there must be an algorithm that can get this right.
Even auto-exposure in Lightroom Elements is close.