Photography Pitfalls: Don't Blindly Trust Highlight Tone Priority!

There is a setting called Highlight tone priority that has been getting some surf photographers into trouble recently, so I have made this video to help them understand more about this setting and when to use it, when to turn it off and how to set it up on your camera.
It's a setting found on nearly all Canon cameras and the DSLR users are particularly having trouble at times with it. So hopefully this video will clear up when to use it and when to make sure its turned off for the best results.
Please comment with your questions and suggestions around this topic.
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[@Berawabilly]

Hey mate, do you have any videos regarding how you travel with your camera gear + housing etc? Do you use pelican cases or similar? Cheers

[@dreamlifephotography]

Hey mate, yes I have a TH-cam video on travelling with gear, You can watch it here: th-cam.com/video/gEpw2-f-l5A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XSEeaX7pg0-NiuQq
And I have more on this topic inside my comprehensive water photography course as well

[@ConnorTrimble]

Super good point on not using it when it is darker + with older cameras!
It's actually my favorite little trick, especially with big waves here in Hawai'i. I use it almost all of the time in water because of the bright light I shoot in say 90% of the time. For sunset stuff, I usually just clean it up in Lightroom after, especially because the AI denoise is so good now. I've used the 1dx mk ii, 1dx mk iii and now r5 the past 5-6 years or so and I think it's favor those nicer bodies with greater dynamic range vs. the 5d mk ii in the example which is noteworthy.
I tend to prefer to over expose as well in camera to make images pop more, but Highlight tone priority saves the highlights when I do that.
Last thing to note as well, I usually do NOT use it when shooting video because I'm exposing properly or slightly under exposing with video since the dynamic range isn't quite as good with video.
At the end of the day, I think it depends on the camera and how people like to shoot and what works for me, may not work for someone elses style. Like you told others though, just try it for themselves 100%. Just takes a lot of time and testing which you and I have both put tons of time in to doing to figure out our shooting styles. Psyched you brought up the downside of it though. I mentioned it in a video and didn't really dive too deep in to how it could be a negative. Love your videos as always!

[@dreamlifephotography]

Hey Bro, thanks so much for your comment, through that I have discovered your YT...stoked to follow your channel now, looks like you have some super cool stuff!! Yeah with the HTP its definitely an issue for the older cameras. It is only a slight tweak, but with the dark conditions and the older DSLR's it was causing issues for some of my students, so I thought I would make a cautionary video for those crew... looks like it works really well for you and Im stoked you took the time to write your input and experience with it in this thread...cheers ledge great to connect!