On Thu, Jul 11, 2013, Rob Z. Smith wrote: > > Which of the bracketed shots do you want to retain in the collection? > The one that has the best exposure or the one that is the most > overexposed short of blown out highlights? If it is just the best > exposed shot of the series can't you simply select this by eye in LT?
It's a little trickier than that because (per _Light: Science & Magic_), you do lose some detail when an exposure is shifted too far to the right (overexposure) even when there are no blown highlights. So yeah, best exposure is what I'm looking for, but with some emphasis on overexposure that avoids details loss in shadow areas. Choosing is double-tricky because you need to check the photo for the details you're most interested in preserving. (For example, I took a lot of photos of sunsets with backlit mountains, so there's severe shadow of the mountains. I would like the shots that have the "best" cross between sunset detail/color and mountain detail.) What would be likely best for this purpose (although likely against the design rules of the DT coders) would be a cross between lighttable and darktable mode that allows multiple images to be worked on at a time. I'm pretty sure I've seen other people requesting this for other reasons. Another option might be a "simple filmstrip" mode for lighttable that shows extra info for a series of photos (EXIF, histogram, etc). -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
