Controlling exposure

[gegjrphoto]

I don't understand the obsession iti avoid minor highlight overexposure. In most situations with widely varying backgrounds it is almost impossible to prevent having some areas overexposed. For example, when the main subject has a background of vegetation and sun is shining on the subject and on background, it is possible to have excellent exposure on the subject (foreground) without being able to control exposure of highlights coming through the vegetation. This can be especially true of landscape scenes or scenes where wildlife is in foreground but dense vegetation with speckles of sun coming through the vegetation in the background.

Back in days of only film there was no histogram view and no lcd to see effects of various changes to exposure settings.