On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this may add
graphically to what
Godfrey said, and with which I agree.
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/blown.jpg
Okay, stopped down more then the face would have been even darker.
I don't
get how in high contrast situations it can always be avoided.
Given the scene (and I am only looking at this JPEG example) and
saving the exposure in RAW format, I would have exposed a stop or so
less to retain some detailing in the dress, and adjusted the RAW
converter to bring up the then slightly over-dark face.
Of course, I expect the photographer already did that to some degree
and it might simply be out of scope for the available dynamic range
of the sensor. The solution then is to flatten out the contrast by
adding light to the darker areas with a flash or reflector, and use
less exposure overall.
Weddings are a tough situation, lighting wise. Big white dresses on
the women, dark suits on the men. Whoever came up with these
conventions certainly wasn't thinking about photography. ;-)
Godfrey
