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I will be shooting a series of photos that inludes a gray card in each image. How can I use Lightroom to obtain the same exposure in each image relative to the gray card?

alternatively
Use the Match Total Exposures option that you find when you are in Develop mode
Simply work one image to the correct settings (note I use the word settings not just exposure) , and, as Rikk suggested, take a white balance (optional) reading from the grey card, then select all the images you want referenced to that photo in the film strip along the bottom clickl Match Total Exposures in the Settings Menu
and all the photos will have the same relative settings.
If you've set clarity, noise, etc etc, before you do the Match Total Exposures, do a Sync Settings, so all the settings are identical, all the noise, the clarity and tone curve, the lens CA, the vibrance etc
THEN do the match total exposures.
Then you've applied all the settings you'd set out from the 1st image AND set the exposure to the same as the photo you'd worked on.
It does not take long
In precis
edit one photo to completion
Copy ALL the settings to ALL the photos
Then
Match Total Exposures from that 1st photo.
Enjoy
hamish NIVEN Photography

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Hi Teeming, and welcome to the Dev. Forum!
teeming wrote:
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