[jfrancho]

1. I use Partial almost exclusively. I want to be able to meter for elements in the scene, not an average of the whole scene.

2. Only for landscapes. 1 stop is probably too much, you can narrow your exposure down within a 1/3 stop.

3. Yes, but read it through metering, using spot or partial metering, not intuition.

4. Manual is a better AE lock than trying to hold your thumb on the * button for me.

5. Yep, but don't just chimp, hit the info button twice to see the histogram, and use that as your guide. The thumbnail is only good for rating composition.

6. See #5.

7. I find metering much more convenient than calculating shifts with the Sunny-16 rule.

8. Yes, in most cases this is a good idea, but not for correcting exposure. Its better for making subjective decisions about WB, contrast, and saturation later in the work flow.

9. I see this more af a landscape technique than a portrait thing, though it can be done. Multiple developments of a single raw don't give you much gain in DR, but it can give an interesting look. You can get more out of the Exposure, Shadows, and the Recovery sliders than you think, if you keep the Curve linear, and the contrast down. You can add contrast later in the work flow, if capturing maximum DR is the goal.

10. That was what I was saying all along.

Good stuff Kelly.