two or three exposures at different shutter speeds and blended in PS CS 2.
Herb...
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: PESO: Dynamic Range
Last Friday while shooting on the street at night, I grabbed a pic of the
Birmingham theater marquis. Right off the bat I could see it was a
problem. The billboard part of the marquis was extremely bright while the
colored lights were quite dim. Of course the unlit parts of the building
and marquis were in deep night shadow with only a touch of illumination
from the street lights and marquis lights. Overall, it was at least ten
stops variation. For capture I shot RAW overexposing the highlights by
about a 1 1/2 stops. Normally, I bring the highlights within range, but I
knew I'd lose a lot of shadow if I did that. The RAW converter can recover
some highlight detail, so I was counting on that. When converting, I
pulled the exposure back down about a stop and turned the brightness all
the way up. I also decreased the shadow depth. I'm at work now, but I can
get the exact numbers later if someone is interested. Finally, after
conversion, I used the shadow/highlight tool to ligh!
ten the shadows a bit more, tame the highlights and increase midrange
contrast. I sharpened after conversion with USM. I'm quite pleased with
the result. It's here:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3421449
